Özet:

Gravestones are significant documents that give information about art, culture, history, belief and language of the environment and the period in which they have been produced. Most of the gravestones, even before reading the epitaph, enable some indications (gender, occupation, social and ekonomik condition) related to the person lying in the grave. Gender is the most important of these. While male gravestones are generally simpler and have a graveside, female gravesides are elegant, ornamented and elaborated whose style is reflecting the nature of a woman. Within this context it is observed that ornamentation items are more intensely witnessed upon female gravestones. These ornamentation items, which were made either in aesthetic or symbolic terms, and represent the period and stylistic features at the same time, can be seen upon the most of the Ottoman Period female gravestones with a rich variety. The style of the female gravestones in Rize province represent this variety. In this study, which contains 42 samples of female gravestones taking place in Rize province city centre and belonging to Ottoman period, there are 42 ornamented headstones and 3 footstones. These gravestones that range from the 18th century to the 20 th century have been examined in a detailed way in terms of the type of gravestone, its form, material, its epitaph, gravside, its technique of engraving and the ornamentation properties within this study. As a result, the place and significance of the gravestones in Rize have been tried to be determined within the tradition of Turkish-Islamic gravestone.

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