Ter-Israyeliants Grave-stone :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Ter-Israyeliants Grave-stone 1864 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1864 y․

5 lines in the Armenian original engraved on a white marble tombstone (155 x 35 x 52 centimetres):
You, people, look [at my gravestone and] read [this]. Tell my grief-stricken descendants. I, Priest Grigor Ter-Israyelian (on the other side) died at the age of thirty-six, having performed priestly duties for only five years.
The Armenian original published in: “Gardmank,” 1996, No. 3, p. 14.
Note: Among other sources, Priest Grigor’s death (1864) is also mentioned in the “Mshak” daily (1878, No. 187, p. 2).