The dedicatory Armenian inscription found at the eastern interior wall, just past the entrance to the upper right, Orbelian's Caravanserai, previously Selim Caravanserai, Vayots Dzor Province, Armenia. It reads the following: "In the name of the Almighty and powerful God, in the year 1332, in the world-rule of Busaid Khan, I Chesar son of Prince of Princes Liparit and my mother Ana, grandson of Ivane, and my brothers, handsome as lions, the princes Burtel, Smbat and Elikom of the Orbelian Dynasty, and my wife Khorishah daughter of Vardan ... of the Senikarimans, built this spiritual house with our own funds for the salvation of our souls and those of our parents and brothers reposing in Christ, and of my living brothers and sons Sargis, Hovhannes the priest, Kurd and Vardan. We beseech you, passers-by, remember us in Christ. The beginning of the house place in the high-priesthood of Esai, and the end, thanks to his prayers, in the year 1332."