A rectangular panel featuring a classical 12th–13th-century composition: Swastika-patterned woven ornamental band and cornice, a rectangular cross niche, and a floral cross, floral ornaments with braided patterns rising from the foot of the cross, and distinctive tripartite grape clusters typical of Artsakh descend from the upper corner of the niche. The edge of the niche and other sections are decorated with circles stamped using a special tool called a punson.

Below the cross, the faint outline of an armed horseman can be discerned. It is unclear whether the master only managed to sketch it or if the figure was intentionally scratched off at a later time.

Inscriptions appear on both sides of the cross and at its base, being published here for the first time: "In the summer of 630 (1181), I, Desum, son of Vasak, together with my mother, Shahandukht, erected this cross."

The fact that the inscription is in Armenian, that the year is recorded according to the Armenian calendar, that the names Vasak and Shahandukht are distinctly Armenian, and that the name Desum is uniquely attested only in Artsakh, is disregarded. Similarly, the presence of sculptures depicting armed horsemen, a common motif on the khachkars of Artsakh, is ignored.

All of this evidence can be dismissed and labeled as a "fabrication," as Azerbaijani state propaganda routinely claims.