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- Title
İZNİK MÜZESİNDEKİ KANDİL VE ŞAMDAN MOTİFLİ MEZAR TAŞLARI.
- Authors
Kâmil BİÇİCİ, H.
- Abstract
The Iznik Museum is across from the mosque. One of Iznik's nicest historical buildings, the museum is housed in the Kitchen of Lady Nilüfer. The imaret (kitchen) was set up in 1388 by the wife of Ottoman ruler Orhan Gazi, as a hospice for wandering dervishes. Visitors enter through a spacious five-domed portico, which leads to a central domed area flanked by two more domed rooms. The museum's collection consists mainly of Roman antiquities and glass, supplemented with some recently-discovered Seljuk, Ottoman tiles and grave stones. İznik Museum gravestones 11 of oil lamps, 5 of candlestick motif. In inscriptions of gravestones have 9 sample. The others missed, cracked and worn except from one of stone. In all gravestones were used as the material marble. Most of the double chain and double handles oil lamp designs with stones. With all of the grave stones, rumi, on the sides of the top of the front palmette motifs are floral. Gravestones, length 125 cm. up to 46 cm., beam 54 cm. thickness of 15 cm. with 25 cm., with a 6 cm. All gravestones they all made with engraving. The technique of scraping and carving decoration technique was implemented in 13 grave stone. On inscriptions and decorates are covered in most of the relief. Examples of floral, geometric, analyze the gravestones and post objectively decorated. Thirteen tombstone decorated with concentric circles, nine of them in the article, seven floral in geometric decorated, fourteen of them objectively decorated. Floral embellishments; Wildflower, a curved branch, palmette, palm leaves, rosettes, rumi, the stones are discussed on a few. Geometric embellishments can be perceived a medallion, sawtooth, star. We as most lamps, candlestick objectively embellishments. Lighting instruments used by the people of the Ottoman period, shapes, types, properties and decorations can be seen on gravestones. Iznik in terms of the traces of the history of the Turkish people to reflect and inform the gravestones in the Museum of lamps and candelabra motifs is important.
- Subjects
CANDLESTICKS; SEPULCHRAL monuments; MUSEUMS; MOSQUES; HISTORIC buildings; DERVISHES
- Publication
Electronic Turkish Studies, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 3, p637
- ISSN
1308-2140
- Publication type
Article