Recording and Studying the Islamic Tombstones of Ottoman Rethymno:
Scholarly supervision:
Andonis Anastasopoulos
Research group: Foteini Chaireti, Marinos Sariyannis, Niki Spanou, Maria Varoucha, Zois Xanthopoulos.
The aim of the project is to create an electronic database of the surviving tombstones of the Muslim population of Ottoman Rethymno (Resmo in Ottoman Turkish). To achieve this, the tombstones are measured, described, photographed and numbered. Imprints of the inscriptions of those tombstones bearing inscriptions are produced on a special filter paper. The inscriptions are transliterated in the latin alphabet and read. The data are then fed into the database.
Approximately three hundred tombstones (or fragments of tombstones)
survive in Rethymno, and they are very interesting from an historical,
archaeological as well as artistic point of view. As an historical source,
tombstones provide mostly prosopographical information, but also information
on mentality, social stratification, as well as the economy. This information
can and should be combined with data from other kinds of sources so
as to make the most of it.
The project is carried out by a group of graduate students of the University
of Crete supervised by Dr Antonis Anastasopoulos, lecturer at the University
of Crete, with the collaboration of the 13th Ephorate of Byzantine and
Post-Byzantine Antiquities, which owns the tombstones.
Research group: Foteini Chaireti, Marinos Sariyannis, Niki Spanou, Maria Varoucha, Zois Xanthopoulos.
The aim of the project is to create an electronic database of the surviving tombstones of the Muslim population of Ottoman Rethymno (Resmo in Ottoman Turkish). To achieve this, the tombstones are measured, described, photographed and numbered. Imprints of the inscriptions of those tombstones bearing inscriptions are produced on a special filter paper. The inscriptions are transliterated in the latin alphabet and read. The data are then fed into the database.
Approximately three hundred tombstones (or fragments of tombstones)
survive in Rethymno, and they are very interesting from an historical,
archaeological as well as artistic point of view. As an historical source,
tombstones provide mostly prosopographical information, but also information
on mentality, social stratification, as well as the economy. This information
can and should be combined with data from other kinds of sources so
as to make the most of it.The project is carried out by a group of graduate students of the University
of Crete supervised by Dr Antonis Anastasopoulos, lecturer at the University
of Crete, with the collaboration of the 13th Ephorate of Byzantine and
Post-Byzantine Antiquities, which owns the tombstones.
