[92] Ibid. p. 138, and Ruines d’Ani, p. 30. [↑]
[93] Ibid. p. 140, and Ruines d’Ani, p. 31. [↑]
[94] Muravieff ap. Brosset, Voyage Arch. loc. cit. p. 129. [↑]
[95] Mr. Marr has published an account of his discoveries of new epigraphical material in Armenia in the Zapiski of the Eastern Section of the Imp. Russian Arch. Society, vol. viii., 1893, pp. 69–103. He contributes four new inscriptions from Ani. I have not been able to find any account of his excavations. [↑]
[96] The interior of the building which forms the subject of my illustration is given by Brosset in plate xiv. of the Atlas to the Ruines d’Ani. The detail and ornament there portrayed do not correspond with reality. The devils are more or less imaginary, and there appears to be only one of them in the actual design, viz. on the south wall, the first pilaster as you enter from the west—in low relief. Brosset styles this interior “a hall in the citadel”; but the following considerations are against this view:—1. It is oriented east; 2. It obviously had an apse; 3. Above the apse you see the form of a cross sculptured on the face of the arch which still remains.
The bas-reliefs are given by Brosset, plates xxxv. and xxxvii. The former (representing the archer) was found in the valley of the Tsaghkotz with an inscription in Armenian, “Christ have pity on the lady Shushan, thy servant.” This personage may be identified with the wife of the Pahlavid Grigor, mother of Vahram. [↑]
[97] This building must be the subject of plate xiii. in Brosset’s Atlas to the Ruines. [↑]
[98] The rock with the chapel is described by Abich (op. cit. vol. i. p. 192). It was strongly fortified. [↑]
[99] It is not exactly symmetrical, the measurement from west to east being nearly 31 feet. [↑]
[100] Brosset translates, “J’ai construit ce lieu de repos.” But it surely cannot refer to the chapel itself, which, as we have seen, has inscriptions of the mother of Aplgharib, and must therefore have been in existence before 1040. Brosset therefore supposes that the restoration of the church is alluded to (Ruines d’Ani, pp. 37 and 106). For a more probable version of the inscription see Alishan, Shirak, p. 53. [↑]