Grave-stone :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Grave-stone 1905 y․

Iran / Western Atrpatakan / Salmast / Khosrova

Inscription, Assyrian, Embossed, Commemoration 1905 y․

Engraved in Assyrian (4 lines in embossed letters):

Transl.: Here lies Gavriel, Isho Bar Beygiz’s young son, a gift. He died on 1 September 1905. [This tombstone] was placed by his wife Mariam, Village Head Toma’s daughter. Amen. Merchant Gavriel.

We are deeply grateful to Nikadim Youkhanayev, the spiritual leader of the Assyrian community of Verin (Upper) Dvin, in Ararat Region of the Republic of Armenia, for the decipherment and Armenian translations of all the Assyrian inscriptions included in this book.
Karapetian. Samvel, History of Armenia, Salmast, vol. 2, Yerevan, 2019, p. 319.

Author Sasun Danielian
Date 2017 y․