CROSS OF TOLABAB

Aplot of land, situated 2 km north-west of Jiliza in a straight line and known by the names of Hyuni Takht and Yergen Hogh, retains a sacred site called Cross of Tolabab by the inhabitants of the adjacent villages. It lies at an altitude of 1,197 metres above sea level (N 41°14°14.58°°; E 044°36°34.74°°..

It comprises two modern khachkars surrounded with stones: they are placed on the small mound-like elevation of a wooded mountain branch, which has an extended form resembling a cape. The smaller of them bears a year and the larger one an inscription of two lines:

Transl.: 1990. To the Cross of Tolabab from Roman Galust Khanzadian.

Most presumably, this sacred site used to retain an older cross-stone which has not reached our days.