Ram gravestone statues in Masdara cemetery

In Masdara village, Talin district, Echmiadzin district

Masdara village since 21.01.1965 – Dalarik

Architecture

The heads of three of the ram statues located in the cemetery were broken. The other one is partially healthy (Source: referring to the photo dated 13.07.2011).

In the Masdara village cemetery, there were four ram statues carved out of stone from the period of the Oghuz tribes, surrounded by grass. Three of them have broken heads. Another one is partially healthy.

The toponym "Masdareh" is derived from the words "mas" and "valley" meaning "Maslar's valley", "Masdaresi". The Maslar are a branch of the Sak tribes that have settled in the South Caucasus, including Western Azerbaijan, since ancient times (around VIII century BC). The name Maslarin remained in the toponyms Masalli, Masazir, Mashtagha, Masis, Meskhet, Khachmas (Khachmaz) in the territory of the modern Republic of Azerbaijan and Western Azerbaijan.