Agathangelos' History was compiled in the fifth century, well after the events, and reads as national foundation narrative rather than chronicle — the boar, the thirteen years in the pit, the martyred nuns from Rome. Khor Virap monastery stands over the pit and is one of the most visited sites in Armenia, in sight of Mount Ararat across a closed border. The point the story insists on is not the king's power but his guilt: Armenia converts after the crime, not before it. The nuns Hripsime and Gayane have churches at Etchmiadzin named for them, both seventh-century and both still standing.