Khachkar :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Khachkar 1634 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Ghoshabulagh

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1634 y․

“On one of the sides of the road leading to the village, two splendid cross-stones stood on a firm pedestal. They had hardly escaped collapse firstly because they rose high and cattle could not reach them, and secondly, because they were unsurpassed specimens of the sculpture of the past century. Scratching the moss off the first one with the tip of the knife, I read the following on it”:
This Holy Cross [stands] in memory of Father Hakob [and] Bekum Agha. I, Father Hakob, erected this Holy Cross in the year 1634.
Reference: Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, pp. 13-14.