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Grave-stone 1651 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Khanlar / Getashen

Inscription, Armenian, Embossed, Commemoration 1651 y․

3 lines, in embossed characters, in the Armenian original carved on the southern face of a gravestone (125 x 28 x 61 centimetres) whose northern face has some cross reliefs carved below four arches:
May this Holy Cross protect Hakhnazar, his spouse Nane, [their] sons Yavr [and] Harutiun. May you remember worthless sculptor Ohan. In the year 1651.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 378.

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetian
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․