Sergius, as attested by the famous inscription of Tekor. It underscores the role of Sahak Kamsarakan as the founder of the most celebrated Late Antique basilica in Armenia - the basilica of Tekor - and in introducing and promoting the cult of St. The article juxtaposes data from Anania Širakac'i to information provided by Lazar P'arpec'i and Procopius of Caesarea on Sahak Kamsarakan and his brothers Nerseh and Hrahat. Based on this, it explores inner family dynamics in the system of naxararut'iwn, and the Kamsarakans’ relationship with the other mighty family of the period - the Mamikoneans.
This article takes its inspiration from an unusual representation of the relationship between members of the potent Kamsarakan dynasty of Late Antique Armenia, as described in a mathematical problem by the seventh-century polymath Anania Širakac'i. The inclusion and the examination of a number of written, archaeological, and pictorial data (descriptions of royal and governmental feasts, stamped jars' belts, tombstones depicting the feast of the dead) make it possible to restore the environment of medieval feast and to prove that the Armenian intellect of the Middle Ages tried to combine "innovations" with traditional worldviews, customs and rituals in order to spread spiritual and moral ideas, which, as in the case of Širakaci’s xraxčanakans, gave these initiatives a special image and procedure. A comparative examination of the medieval feast and xraxčanakans reveals that Širakaci’ changed the principle of the Greek symposium (which he was obviously well acquainted with) with the details of the Armenian feast, giving to his problems feast name and appearance in order to spread mathematical knowledge in Armenia. They must have presented a serious challenge even if the respondent tried to solve them in a fully sober state. It should be noted that the essence of the xraxčanakans is only arithmetical there are no mysterious-allegorical or formal-logical problems, and two of the xraxčanakans (second, fifth) are no less complex than Širakaci’s Mathematical Problems.
It is noteworthy that the purely arithmetic part of the three xraxčanakans is composed on the theme of a feast and wine, which makes it possible to compose a certain idea about the atmosphere of the feast. Unlike other arithmetic problems by Širakac‘i, the xraxčanakans are accompanied by special instruction-advices: when, where and how to use them, what behavior to display. The Xraxčanakankʻ of Anania Širakac‘i is a small collection of arithmetic problems (for now, we can confidently talk about six xraxčanakans) which are united by the theme of the feast.
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