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Khachkar 1457 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Pib

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1457 y․

One of them was adjoined by a khachkar reading:
I, Bishop Maghagia, erected this cross [in memory of my] father ... my brother Father Par... Bishop ..., in the year 1457.
The Armenian original published in: “Ardzagank,” 1886, No. 23, p. 330; Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 301; Lalayan, Yer. Gandzak District. In: “Azgagrakan Handes,” vol. 5, Tiflis, 1899, No. 1, p. 311.
Note: The “Ardzagank” deciphers the epitaph in the following way, “I...erected this cross in memory of my father Priest Parsam in the year 1457.”