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I have added a multiple issues tag to this article. Antony Bryer, in "People and Settlement in Anatolia and the Caucasus 800-1900", 1988, footnote page 197, describes as a "misconception" the belief that sculputed rams are AkKoyunlu monuments: "in fact, all appear to be Armenian tombs". He mentions the ram sculptures beside the Armenian churches at Varzahan (destroyed by that time, but known through photographs) as well as Armenian ram sculptures outside the Apostles Church in Kars (these too are no longer there, but may be in the grounds of the Kars museum). He also postulates that the engraving of a sculptured ram that is on the frontispiece of Curzon's Armenia, published in 1854, is one of the Varzahan rams. There are also the extremely-well documented examples (all again now destroyed) at the Armenian cemetery at Julfa, all obviously Christian Armenian with Armenian inscriptions. I believe that a couple of survivors can be found in museums in Armenia - but those in-situ were smashed up by the Azerbajan army.
The tags needs to remain on the article until the article becomes far more balanced in it content, in its images, and in its sources. The majority of the sources cited are modern works deriving from Azerbaijan - a country where academia and academic output is known to be firmly under the heel of political and nationalist pressure. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 12:53, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
