Grave-stone :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Grave-stone 1864 y․

Iran / Western Atrpatakan / Salmast / Khosrova

Inscription, Assyrian, Embossed, Commemoration 1864 y․

Engraved in Assyrian (4 lines in embossed letters):

Transl.: Here lies Shmun, the young son of Avdisho, the priest of Khosrava. He died during the liturgy in the church on 3 September 1864 A.D. This stone was inscribed [with this epitaph] by his brother Davit.

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. 312.

Author Sasun Danielian
Date 2017 y․