Badaliants Grave-stone :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Badaliants Grave-stone 1899 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1899 y․

Carved on a white marble tombstone (137 x 31 x 45 centimetres):
My young life faded away in the prime of youth... Alas, I did not live to see the happy day of my wedding and my dreams did not come true. My beloved Simon died like a rose that withers away. The other face reads: How can those alive mourn over Simon’s death? The tree of my poor life dried up while in bloom. May you who read this remember Badaliants in your prayers. May he be welcomed in heaven in his afterlife.
One of the narrow sides of the tombstones reads: Born on 2. 14. 1885, [he] died on 2. 17. 1899.
The Armenian original published in: “Gardmank,” 1996, No. 1, p. 6.