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Pedestal 13 c․

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Baralet

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 13 — 14 cc․

Six lines in the Armenian original engraved on a khachkar pedestal:
Ս(ՈՒՐ)Բ ՆՇԱՆ ՏԷՐՈՒՆ|ԱԿԱՆ ԱՐԵԱՄԲ ՆԵՐԿ|ԵԱԼ Է ՊԱՏՎԱԿԱՆ ԲԱ|ՐՍԵՂ Ք(Ա)Հ(Ա)Ն(Ա)ՅԻՍ ԼԵՐ ՔԱՒԱ|ՐԱՆ ԵՒ ՅԱԿՈԲ ԻՐԻՑԻ|Ս ԼԵՐ ԱՒԳՆԱԿԱՆ: Transl.: May the Holy Sign, painted [red] with the Lord’s blood, be a purgatory for Honourable Priest Barsegh, and may it protect Priest Hakob.

Published in: Մարգարեանց Կարապետ Տ. Սարգսեան, Հայրենեաց հնութիւններից, «Արարատ», 1873, էջ 389: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 107. Misreading: K. Margariants’s decipherment misses the Armenian auxiliary verb «է», i.e. the equivalent for ‘is.’ The words «պատվական», i.e. the Armenian equivalent for ‘honourable,’ and «իրիցիս», i.e. the Armenian equivalent for ‘priest,’ are read as «պատուական» and «իրիցուս» respectively. Note: The style of the epitaph traces it back to the period between the 13th and 14th centuries. During our visit to Baralet in July 2001, we found the aforementioned chapel totally annihilated, with its stones having been used for the construction of a sheep-breeding farm right in its immediate vicinity. As for the inscribed khachkar pedestal, it remained intact in its place of location.

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․

Type Copied Lapidary Inscription
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Author Samvel Karapetyan