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Grave-stone

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Ghotyul

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration

Engraved on a gravestone:
I, Yeghom, erected this cross [in memory of] Natar.
The Armenian original published in: Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, P. 299; Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 257.
Note: Another tombstone, lying near the aforementioned one, bears a relief representing “…a plough with some tools, a woman laying the table, some dancers with wine jugs in their hands as well as a man playing the saz [a ‘saz’ is an Oriental string musical instrument] and another beating the drum. It also depicts a prince, with a hawk in his right hand and a wine glass in the left. Near him a wash basin, wine jug and an alive ram can be seen. The eastern side of the gravestone is engraved with a huge eagle raising a lamb” (Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 299).