Author(s): Åerife TALÄ°
Akçakaya is about 12 km. far from the center of Kayseri and adjacent to Zincidere, Re?adiye, Endürlük and K?ranard?; located at Erciyes Mountain in the southeast and Ali Mountain in the north. It has been a Turkish village since the period of settlement, so the architectural works were formed in this direction. In this article, three fountains with historic importance and ten tombstones with white marble inscription in the historic cemetery of the village were studied. While two of the dependent wall fountains are pointed and one is round-arched, each one of all three has building inscription made of white marble. Partially preserving the original features, these fountains, built with cut stone, are simple examples. White marble inscriptions were seen as a tradition of the specific architecture Kayseri and its surroundings, and therefore applied on these ten gravestones. Four of those which were fastened with iron nails to the local stone material are unlikely made of cut stone. Marble known as a noble material with its durability, elegance and rich look should have been preferred only in the inscriptions here because of the economic power of the families. In fact, gravestones are simple examples of this ongoing tradition, but white marble inscriptions on them have thoughtful and careful workmanship with their calligraphy and stack. Actually they were selected to keep the deceased person'sname ongravestones longer because of resistance.
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