Statue of King Gagik I Item Info
- Description:
- The statue of Bagratid Armenian King Gagik I (r. 989-1020), placed at an outside niche of the Church of St. Gregory (Gagkashen) in Ani, which he commissioned, History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan. In this statue, King Gagik I is holding the model of the church. After the ruins of Ani were handed over to the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the whereabouts of this statue became unknown. A fragment of the statue is kept in a museum in Erzurum without a proper explanatory note.
Citation:
"Statue of King Gagik I", Ani, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), /items/ani_198.html