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| navigate by keyword : 122 13thcentury access across amaghu another armenia armenian astvatsatsin backside basrelief best brickred building chapel church cliffs complec complex cross directly dome dzor face floor for from god gorge grants grigor historycal holy its jutting karapet khach known located made monastery mother mountains narrow near noravank old out pick province river rock rocky sculpture second sheer staircase stonemade surb tall town twostorey valley vayots wall way which yeghegnadzor yerevan |
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| The western portal is decorated with special splendour. An important role in its decoration is played by the cantilevered stairs that lead to the upper level, with profiled butts to the steps. The doorways are framed with broad rectangular plaitbands, with ledges in the upper part, with columns, fillets and strips of various, mostly geometrical, fine and intricate patterns. Between the outer plathand and the arched framing of the openings there are representations of doves and sirens with women`s crowned heads. Such reliefs were widely used in fourteenth-century Armenian art and in earlier times in architecture, miniatures and works of applied art, on various vessels and bowls. |
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