[111] This is the chapel which Abich names “Kirche der Maria Verkündigung” (op. cit. vol. i. p. 193). [↑]
[112] Abich, op. cit. vol. i. p. 199. [↑]
[113] See the Georgian annalist translated by Brosset (Hist. de la Géorgie). [↑]
[114] I should be sorry to have to swear to this statement. [↑]
[115] Voyage Arch. livr. 1, rapp. 3, pp. 96, 107, 109–10. [↑]
[116] Telfer, Crimea and Transcaucasia, vol. i. p. 216. The chamber at Geghard is known as the Rusukna sanctuary, and was completed in A.D. 1288 (Arm. era 737) (ibid.). [↑]
[117] An inscription of A.D. 1215, much mutilated, seems to infer this (Brosset, Voyage Arch. loc. cit. p. 97). [↑]
[118] Brosset, Voyage Arch. loc. cit. p. 98. The dimensions of these various apartments are:—No. 1, length, 29 feet 4 inches; breadth, 29 feet; No. 2, 27 feet by 27 feet 2 inches; No. 3, hall of the synod, 18½ paces by 18 paces. The reader will note that the architects avoided exact squares. In this they were governed by a right instinct. [↑]
[119] Brosset, Voyage Arch. loc. cit. p. 99. Another derivation is from the Greek word for a priest, ἰέρευς (see M. Prudhomme, note to Aristakes, ch. ii.). [↑]