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Khachkar 1549 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Tzar

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1549 y․

In conformity with Barkhutariants, a few steps to the west of the cross erected by the princess Mamkan, there was another khachkar with the following inscription:
“CHRIST, THE LORD, THIS HOLY SYMBOL TO PLEAD FOR DOVLAT. WITH THE HELP OF GOD, I, DOVLAT, MY HUSBAND, GREAT PRINCE MIRZAJAN, KHIKAR, MY SONS TOVIT BEK, MELIK BEK ERECTED THIS CROSS FOR THE SALVATION OF THE SOUL OF THE DAUGHTER OF MELIK GHUKAS, (DESCENDANT) OF THE HOUSE OF GUEGHAM, YEAR 1549.”

Published in: M. Bishop Barkhutariants, Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 406; "Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 222. The author of the "Corpus" proposed that the bishop has confused the lines and rearranged them as follows:" Christ, the God, this Symbol intercessor for Dovlat, with the God, I, Dovlat, from the House of Guegham, daughter of Melik Ghukas, spouse of the great prince Mirzajan, my sons Davit Bek, Melik Bek, erected this cross for the salva tion of the souls in year 1549". We discovered three fragments of this inscription within the walls of the school(the fragment fastened into the wall of the school is convention ally marked on the plan by N 11, 35 and 109). Altogether the fragments contained 12 lines. It is obvious that this inscription was also carved on the entire narrow rib of the cross and consisted of many short lines.