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Rectangular Grave-Stone 1672 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Touz / Krzen

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1672 y․

3 lines in the Armenian original carved on a tombstone (127 x 56 to 72 x 33 centimetres):
In the year 1672. May this Holy Cross protect Khoja Avdulkarim from Aleppo.
The Armenian original published in: Karbelashvili, D. P. Krzen and Its Inhabitants. In: “Proceedings of the Azerbaijani Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR,” 1937, No. 2, p. 42.
Misreading: The publisher deciphers the end of the epitaph as “…Khoja David and Margaret from Aleppo.”

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 542.

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