Grave-stone :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Grave-stone 1846 y․

Iran / Western Atrpatakan / Salmast / Khosrova

Inscription, Assyrian, Embossed, Commemoration 1846 y․

Engraved in Assyrian (4 lines in embossed letters):

Transl.: Here lies Khanna, Priest Avdisho’s wife from Khosrava. She died on 21 October and was buried here with church rites in 1846 A.D. This [tomb]stone was erected by her son David.

We are deeply grateful to Nikadim Youkhanayev, the spiritual leader of the Assyrian community of Verin (Upper) Dvin, in Ararat Region of the Republic of Armenia, for the decipherment and Armenian translations of all the Assyrian inscriptions included in this book.
Karapetian. Samvel, History of Armenia, Salmast, vol. 2, Yerevan, 2019, p. 309.

Author Sasun Danielian
Date 2017 y․