The Place and Importance of Statue Shaped Grave Stones in Turkish Art Around Ardahan-Çıldır

Abstract

Turkish grave culture is rather old and rich. Before Islam Turkish tradition put up balbal-stone stat­ue over graves has been sustained by transforming into head and foot Stone over graves in the period after Islam that head and foot Stones being abstracted are sometimes in an appearance of a modern stat­ue can be evaluated as affluence of Turkish art.