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Khachkar 1196 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Chapni

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1196 y․

It contained 17 lines carved under the cross wings and continued on the northern rib of the stone. It reads:
“DATE: 1196. I ERECTED THIS KHACHKAR IN THE MEMORY OF MY SON KHOSROV WHO DIED AMID THE STRANGERS, WHOEVER READS THIS INSCRIPTION...”

Mesrop Magistros Archbishop Ter-Movsisian, Churches and Religious Structures of Three Large Armenia Monasteries: Tatev, Haghartzin and Dadi Vank…, Jerusalem, 1970, p. 93;
See also "Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 197-227, p. 225.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 21.