Tzeruni (Old Man) Church :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Tzeruni (Old Man) Church 13 — 14 cc․

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Metz Aragyal

Inscription, Georgian Mesropian, Engraved, Commemoration

In the late 19th century, the remnants of the monument comprised a block of stone engraved with a brief inscription in the Georgian Mesropian script:
თ(ევდორ)ე წ(მიდა)ჲ. Transl.: Saint Tevdore [St. Thaddaeus].

Published in: Ростомов И., Ахалкалакский уезд в археологическом отношении.– Сборник Материалов для Описания Местностей и Племен Кавказа, вып. XXV, 1898, стр. 35. ცისკარიშვილი ვ., ჯავახეთის ეპიგრაფიკა როგორც საისტორიო წყარო, თბილისი, 1959, էջ 123: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 371. Misreading: I. Rostomashvili has წმიდაი, and V. Tsiskarishvili წმინდაჲ.

Type Copied Lapidary Inscription
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Graphical Drawing

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

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