Grave-stone :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Grave-stone 1918 y․

Iran / Western Atrpatakan / Salmast / Khosrova

Inscription, Assyrian, Embossed, Commemoration 1918 y․

Engraved in Assyrian (4 lines in embossed letters):

Transl.: Here lie the young brothers Hosep and Laazar and Bripanos’ son Toma. [Hosep] was killed in Turkey in 1918. [The tombstone] from Israel Hosep Pano.

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. 321.

Author Sasun Danielian
Date 2017 y․