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Georgian Orthodox Church 19 c․

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Varevan

Description
1848 y․

About 100 metres south-west of the Armenian Catholic church of Varevan stands the Georgian church of the village. M. Brosset is the first scholar to have studied this monument, which was built in the 19th century with the stones of an older church. According to him, in 1848 the door of the older, semi-destroyed church, then standing in the site of the present-day one, bore a stone with a Georgian Mesropian inscription.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 480.

1893 y․

I. Rostomashvili, who visited Varevan in 1893, writes that the local Georgians used many of the finely-finished stones of the older church during the construction of the new one. As for the inscribed tympanum, he found it removed from its original place, with its inscription considerably distorted.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 480.

Inscription, Georgian Mesropian, Engraved, Construction 1020 y․

The inscription of the tympanum reads:
ს(ა)ხ(ე)ლ(ი)თა ღ(მრთისაჲ)თა დ(აი)დვა ესე [ბ(ა)ლ(აჰ)ვ(ა)]რი ჴ(ე)ლ(ი)თა ც(ო)[დ(ვი)]ლისა [ჲოვა]ნეს და გ(ა)ბრ(იე)ლ(ისა)თა. ქრ(ონი)კ(ო)ნი იყო ს¯მ (240) Transl.: In the name of God, this tympanum was placed with sinners Hovane’s and Gabriel’s hands. 240 of the Chronicon (240 + 780 = 1020).

Published in: Brosset M., Mélanges asiatiques. t. II, 2e et 3e1, St. Pétersburg, 1854, էջ 175. Ростомов И., Ахалкалакский уезд в археологическом отношении.– Сборник Материалов для Описания Местностей и Племен Кавказа, вып. XXV, 1898, стр. 46. ცისკარიშვილი ვ., idem, pp. 123-124; ბერძენიშვილი ნ., idem, p. 165; “ჯავახეთი. ისტორიულ-ხუროთმოძღვრული გზამკვლევი, გვ. 61: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 480.

Type Copied Lapidary Inscription
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Non-Specified