Mankind has always tried to overcome the feelings of obscurity and

incapableness against death since its existence. Becoming diversified

throughout the centuries within the frame of the thought of the death and the

earth, mourning culture and religious believes, this curiosity for obscurity

have enabled the changing grave culture and gravestone tradition to be

constituted. Gravestones are artifacts that have the characteristics of historical

documents containing much information and where the artistic accumulation

of cultures come into existence in terms of its ornaments and symbols that it

contains. Differentiating through centuries and regions in Anatolian

geography, the gravestones have not only been reflecting the fashion trend of

the era but also have embodied tracks of some sorts of regional styles. The

reason why examples, where military objects were included in gravestone

ornaments in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia of the 18th and 19th

centuries that constitute our research subject, are frequently seen is very

significant in terms of that they were examples revealing the effect of this

regional style on the gravestones. The presence of much earlier examples of

military object ornaments on gravestones that we encounter shows us that

there have been ornamental elements having some sort of beyond ages and

symbolic meanings