Karvajar (Kalbajar) province

    Five similar vaulted chapels surround Dadi Vank. Only two of them have been preserved fully (northeast of the complex), the other three chapels are badly damaged (the northern, western and southeastern). All of them were erected by the same simple plan; the only entrance was opened from the west. They were built of coarse stone and mortar, the interior was plastered.
    Lapidary inscriptions. Lapidary inscriptions of Dadi Vank were first researched by Yesayi Hassan-Jalalian, the Catholicos of Albania (1702-1728). Bishop Shahkhatuniants used his collection of 1718 in the research published in 1830. At the same time Sarkis Preceptor conducted another investigation. Their collections were published in 1842. Two other inscriptions were published by M. Smbatiants At the end of the XIX cent. the studies were continued by bishop Makar Barkhutariants, and finally the inscriptions were studied in situ by M. Ter-Movsissian in 1911, and published two years later. We should specially mention the considerable work conducted by Khachik preceptor Dadiants, though his valuable collection is not published up to now. The number of inscriptions copied and published to 1911 reached 40.
    Then during several decades this field of research remained in oblivion. The works were resumed only in 1960-1964, by the epigraphical expedition led by Sedrak Barkhudarian, which performed the most detailed and fundamental research of the site. Unfortunately, for some reasons publication of the material assembled was postponed for almost 18 years. Inscriptions were published only in 1982, long after the death of S. Barkhudarian (1970), the chief of expedition. The respective section of his monograph contains 58 deciphered lapidary inscriptions of Dadi Vank, i.e. 18 new inscriptions had been discovered and added to former publication.
    Such is the brief history of investigations and publications of epigraphic inscriptions of Dadi Vank.
    Meanwhile there are 75 inscriptions preserved in situ, i.e. 24 additional inscriptions presented below had been discovered by our expedition.