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Cradle-shaped Grave-Stone 14 c․

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Ekhtila

Inscription, Georgian Mesropian, Engraved, Commemoration 14 — 15 cc․

A four-line weathered epitaph:
†. ბაღათ(უ)რს და | მისსა შვ(ი)ლ|სა გიორგის | შ(ეუნდუე)ნ ღ(მერთმა)ნ. Transl.: May God have mercy upon Baghatur and his son Giorgi.

Published in: Brosset M., Mélanges asiatiques. t. II, 2e et 3e1, St. Pétersburg, 1854, p. 343: ცისკარიშვილი ვ., idem, p. 94: სილოგავა ვ., მრავალთავი, VII, էջ 178: “ჯავახეთი. ისტორიულ-ხუროთმოძღვრული გზამკვლევი”, էջ 70: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 183. Note: M. Brosset erroneously published this inscription as part of the construction inscription of the church, and Tsiskarishvili later repeated the same mistake. According to V. Silogava, the inscription dates from the 14th to 15th centuries.

Type Copied Lapidary Inscription
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Graphical Drawing

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․

Type Copied Lapidary Inscription
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative