Talk:Trdat (architect)

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The many references makes this narrowly a Start class.

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 05:02, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Lost and Found
Interesting article, but I have a question. Under the heading "Lost statue of King Gagik" the text states "The statue of King Gagik can be found on the east facade of the main church of Haghbat Monastery". This has the ridiculous implication that the location of this lost statue has suddenly been revealed by the Wikiepdia article, which I am sure is false. Can you please clarify? House of Scandal 12:32, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Does this help?


 * In 1906, during Nikoli Marr's excavation of the ruins of King Gagik's church of Saint Gregory, a large statue of King Gagik holding a model of his church was found in fragments. The statue was originally located in a niche high up in the north facade of the church.

The statue was reassembled, using iron rods to hold the fragments together, and was kept within the Minuchihr mosque which the excavators had turned into a small museum. The statue was later "lost" in uncertain circumstances at the end of the First World War, and only a few photographs survive of it intact.

A surviving fragment of the statue (the upper left portion of Gagik's torso) is now in the Erzurum archeological museum. Exactly how, and when (it was definitely there by 1993), it got there is unknown. According to the museum staff it was found somewhere in the vicinity of Erzurum and the finder brought it to the museum by car. Nareklm 12:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The above text was "nicked" from http://www.virtualani.org/gagikstatue/index.htm btw. Though there is more to the story, not told on that page.


 * The statue at Haghbat is a completely different statue. Meowy 23:35, 5 January 2007 (UTC)