Rectangular Grave-Stone :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Rectangular Grave-Stone 1305 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Dadivank

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1305 y․

The right edge is broken; the first two lines are damaged. The inscription contains 15 lines.
“HERE RESTS FATHER JOHANNES, THE BLESSED VICAR OF HAGHB AT AND DADE AND KHADA, BROTHER OF BRAVE WARRIOR HASSAN, THE PRINCE OF ROYAL DESCEND. HIS FATHER, MILITARY COMMANDER GRIGOR, I PLEAD, REMEMBER HIM KINDLY, IN YEAR 1305.”

Published in: Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 110-111. Note: The inscription was first published by M. Barkhutariants (Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 206), then M. Ter-Movsissian (Churches and Religious Structures of Three Large Armenia Monasteries: Tatev, Haghartzin and Dadi Vank…, Jerusalem, 1970, p. 96), later republished in Corpus without changes, placing it within the section of “unpreserved, undecipherable, covered by debris and waste”. The publishers omitted the toponym Haghbat.