Winged Cross :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Winged Cross 1640 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Metz Gharamurat

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1640 y․

“Incised among the cross reliefs” of a winged cross:
In the year 1640.
Reference: Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 31.
The Armenian original published in: Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 310.
Note: According to Barkhutariants, “Another stone located near the cross was engraved with a long inscription, but some Muslims had broken it in two pieces. We failed to find the other half to bring them together and copy it.” He deciphers the year of the inscription as ‘1639,’ but Kamalian thinks it is ‘1636.’ In 1960 the cross-stone, standing on the first floor of the belfry of Harants Monastery, was moved to Holy Echmiatzin and placed in the yard of the Patriarchate.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 266.

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Author Samvel Karapetyan
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Author Hovhannes Zakarian
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A winged cross-stone of the belfry of Harants monastery (now in Holy Echmiatzin)