Khachkar :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Khachkar 1275 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Jagir

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1275 y․

4 lines in the Armenian original carved on the lower part of the cross-stone set in the western wall of the north-eastern vesrty of the church:
I, Simon, erected this cross in memory of my brother Usep, my father Ohanes [and] my mother Nazkhatun in the year 1275.
The Armenian original published in: Karapetian, S. The Historical Monuments of Northern Artsakh. In: “Lragir,”1995, N 38, March 22, p. 6.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 496.

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․