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Stormig

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A question about khatchkars and the transition to just an etch on a wall. (Or should that have been the other way around?) Actually, this is not really an art question but just yadda yadda.

 

So, we have free-standing khatchkars.

http://virtuals.compulink.gr/armen-yth/pages/stouk.htm

http://world.std.com/~deanb/dean/current/9.../khatchkar.html

http://www.hyeguide.com/k/k4.shtml

http://www.celtoslavica.de/imago/_etschmiadsin.html

 

Then we have those on/embedded in walls and the like.

 

And then there are carvings of crosses.

Does the fact that this one:

 

http://www.network54.com/Realm/tofi/astghik.jpg

 

has a whole composition to it make it a khatchkar? It is carved on a boulder (and actually faces northerly)... Or is it disqualified?

 

[ December 22, 2002, 03:16 AM: Message edited by: Stormy ]

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