Cemetery :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Cemetery

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Kartikam

Location

Kartikam is particularly distinguished for a medieval Armenian necropolis extending hardly 60 metres north-east of the church and presently located within the boundaries of a plot of land belonging to the Dumanians.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 293.

Description

It retains some ram-shaped tombstones, as well as several khachkars and cross-stone fragments dating from the 15th to 16th centuries. All these cross-stones are removed from their original places and broken to pieces, with the exception of a single one which is engraved with an epitaph. The lower part of one of the khachkars of the cemetery (dimensions: 170 x 100 x 46 centimetres) bears a sculpture representing a horseman. The fragment of another ornate cross-stone has the following dimensions: 87 x 80 x 16 centimetres.