Some Djulfa Monuments in an Azerbaijani Museum?
In a post for the Djulfa blog, I raise the possibility that some monuments lacking inscriptions and Christian symbols from the famed Armenian cemetery of Djulfa – reduced to dust by Azerbaijan in December of 2005 – have been transferred to “The museum under opened heavens” in Nakhichevan City, Republic of Azerbaijan.
Hundreds of the Djulfa monuments were ram-shaped memorials that seem to originate in pagan Armenia. Many of these didn’t have inscriptions on them, so it is likely that some of the Djulfa ram-shaped monuments have survived.
In fact, the official website of Nakhichevan exclave’s Azerbaijani authorities mentionsthat in 2002, the year when Djulfa’s destruction was underway, a new museum was created where rock monuments were brought from different regions.
The full post and a photograph from official Azerbaijani website of what appears to be a Djulfa monument is available here.
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