Scholarship in the Soviet Era
Armenia is littered with inscriptions from the Hittite and Urartean periods, as well as with Aramaic boundary stones and Greek and Latin inscriptions from the later ancient periods. After the creation of the Armenian alphabet in the first decade of the fifth century, inscriptions began to appear in Armenian, often on stone crosses (khach‘k‘ars), church walls, fabrics, and silverware. This Soviet-era book records facsimiles and transcriptions of inscriptions from the Church of the Apostles in Ani, the fabled capital of the Mediaeval Armenian Bagratid Kingdom, known also as the “city of 1,000 churches.”
Armenia is littered with inscriptions from the Hittite and Urartean periods, as well as with Aramaic boundary stones and Greek and Latin inscriptions from the later ancient periods. After the creation of the Armenian alphabet in the first decade of the fifth century, inscriptions began to appear in Armenian, often on stone crosses (<em>khach‘k‘ars</em>), church walls, fabrics, and silverware. This Soviet-era book records facsimiles and transcriptions of inscriptions from the Church of the Apostles in Ani, the fabled capital of the Mediaeval Armenian Bagratid Kingdom, known also as the “city of 1,000 churches.”