ORDU/FATSA YAPRAKLI MEZARLIĞI VE TARİHİ MEZAR TAŞLARI
ORDU/FATSA YAPRAKLI CEMETERY AND HISTORICAL TOMBSTONES

Summary/Abstract: This study is the first registration of the historical tombstones in the Fatsa Yapraklı Cemetery in a sense, and thus the first scientific study dealing with them. In the cemetery, which has undergone a heavy destruction and great losses, and where new burials continue, there are still several inscriptions to be evaluated. This study discusses the tombs, their typologies, materials, techniques and form-and-decoration characteristics of the witnesses within the methodology of art history. Typologically, important details have been identified with the limited variety, the richness of the compositions in the ornaments in the cemetery, and the differences according to the regions. While almost all of the foot stones were decorated in the Yapraklı Cemetery, a foot stone with the depiction of a mosque was found, which was not processed much in the Black Sea Region, and which is known to be unique to the Western Anatolia Region. In the composition, the mosque was depicted with its minaret, the last place of congregation, and architectural structures such as fountains or tombs in front of it. With varying differences in the inscriptions written in Ottoman Turkish and today's Turkish belonging to the Republican Period and their content, in one example, an interesting detail is recorded in the witness as the word "God". It is also important to be able to trace the change in the works chronologically, starting from the work produced from very high quality workmanship and materials in the cemetery and as simple examples that continuing the tradition of making other tombstones. While the twelve examples examined in the cemetery were discussed in detail in terms of shape-form and ornamentation, the places of the works especially in the Turkish tombstone tradition and regional culture were tried to be determined.

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