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Cut-in-rock dwelling

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Metz Samsar

Inscription, Georgian Mesropian, Engraved, Commemoration

As of the late 19th century, a cross relief with a brief Georgian Mesropian inscription was preserved on the entrance of one of the aforementioned cut-in-rock dwellings:
წ(მიდა)ჲ მ(ი)ქ(აელ). Transl.: Saint Michael.

Published in: Ростомов И., Ахалкалакский уезд в археологическом отношении.– Сборник Материалов для Описания Местностей и Племен Кавказа, вып. XXV, 1898, стр. 100. Misreading: I. Rostomashvili has წმიდაი მიქელ. Note: Most probably, this inscription, which was found by I. Rostomashvili, dates from the 10th century, when the other inscriptions of the town site were engraved.

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Author Samvel Karapetyan
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Relief, Cross Relief

As of the late 19th century, a cross relief with a brief Georgian Mesropian inscription was preserved on the entrance of one of the aforementioned cut-in-rock dwellings.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 389.

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