Zolakhach village tombstone monuments

Monument date:
IV-V c.
Placement /
Previous toponym:

In the Zolak­hach village, Asha­gi Garan­lig (Martuni) dist­rict, Goycha mahal.

Placement /
Current toponym:

Ashagi Garanlig district - Martuni, Zolakhach village - named Zolakar since 03.01.1335.

Classification:

Architec­ture

Current situation

A six-pointed star and the sun are reflected on one side of the Ram statue, and the inscription on the other side was erased by the Arme­nians who mo­ved to the villa­ge in the 19th century, accor­ding to their usual character­ristics, and is presented as an Armenian mo­nument in the current period. After the cur­rent deportation of 1988, grave monuments were destroyed because they could not arme­nize them pur­po­sefully. The rest have Arme­nian elements added to them and are presen­ted as Armenian monuments af­ter deportation

Information:

It is located in the village of Zolakhach, close to the village houses and even on the border of the houses. In the cemetery, there are a lot of tombstones and chests, which are examples of Azerbaijan his­tory from different periods. Many of the ram statues in the cemetery are different from gravestone ram statues in other regions. The difference is that bigger ram statues carved from yellow rock are very skillfully made similar to the real ones, with an embroidered bag on the neck and a six-pointed star on the front legs, and a firfira (propeller) image on the back leg and the sun are reflected252. A part of the Azerbaijani population of Zolakhach village was destroyed in 1918-20, and a part was displaced.

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