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Inscription gravestones in Sahrayıcedit Cemetery

2019
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Advisor: Doç. Dr. Mehmet Memiş

Abstract (EN)

Ottoman culture, which accepted the aesthetics as a way of life, was reflected in this characteristic functionality design branch very nicely according to its guided masters and it had left as a privileged cultural heritage. Such that the cemeteries in the Ottoman Empire were never mentioned as Cairns, they were built as a kind of door which shows the life in the world is finished. While white cypress pines in the cemeteries remind beautiful gardens, the beauty of the writings and the harmony of the stone works have a feel of an open-air museum. With this harmony, people both relieved here and they were allowed to live by accepting the existence of death. Today, when one works on the stone tombs which decrease in number in the masses of marble in the graveyard, artifacts are revealed. Sahrayıcedit Cemetery, which is only one of these cemeteries, is home to dozens of these artworks. In this study a work that has been taken to ensure that the artifact level is focused on the clear lines of the artifacts that have moved away from the artifact, and to be preserved for some time if planned before planned. In the years between 1845 and 2015, 237 tombs were examined one by one and also collectively. In this process, symbols of the gravesides, embellishments, texts and most importantly the historical development process of calligraphy.

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Dr. Esra Arslan

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Esra Arslan (Master Thesis). Inscription gravestones in Sahrayıcedit Cemetery, 2019, Sakarya University.

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