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Tookh Manuk Quadrilateral Obelisk

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Khorenia

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Description

N. Berdzenishvili, who visited Khorenia in the 1930s, speaks about a quadrilateral stele preserved there. It was known by the name of Tookh Manuk (the Armenian equivalent for Swarthy Child) and served as a sacred site for the local people.

ბერძენიშვილი ნ., idem, p. 112: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 264.

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