Yeddi Gümbez ( azerb. Yeddi Gümbəz ) - seven domes , or seven tombs ) - a cemetery and a group of mausoleums, tombs of the Shirvan khans [1] , located 1.5 km west of the city of Shemakhy , in Azerbaijan . Four mausoleums have survived [2] . The Eddi Gyumbez cemetery is located on a hill, 200 meters south of the Shahandan cemetery. It got its name from the seven mausoleums over the graves of the Shemakha khans of the 18th-19th centuries. [3]
| Cemetery and the group of the mausoleum | |
| Eddy Gumbez | |
|---|---|
| azerb. Yeddi Gümbəz | |
| A country |  Azerbaijan |
| City | Shamakhi |
| Key dates | |
| 1810 - construction of the earliest preserved mausoleum | |
The earliest surviving mausoleum dates back to 1810 , as evidenced by the inscription carved above the entrance to the mausoleum. In terms of mausoleums have an octagonal shape. The inner faces are processed by niches that are overlapped by semi-domes of lancet form. Octahedrons in plan with the help of angular clots with stalactites go into sixteen hexahedrons, and then through angular rosettes they go around the circles of domes. Mausoleums both inside and outside are faced with white stone [2] .
In three of the four surviving mausoleums (No. 1, 3 and 4), inscriptions are carved above the entrances. At the mausoleum under number 4 of 1810, the name of the master builder Tagi is also indicated. In six mausoleums, a total of 22 graves were discovered, of which date inscriptions were carved on 18 tombstones in the form of sarcophagi and stelae. The inscriptions name the rulers and individual statesmen of the 19th century and their families. The mausoleum at number 5 is completely destroyed [4] .
Mausoleum No. 7 belongs to the family of the last Shirvan khan, Mustafa Khan . Here, the son of Mustafa Khan Azad Khan and the daughter of Nukh-bek are buried (judging by the fact that they are buried in the same mausoleum, the historian Sima Karimzade suggests a relationship between them). Based on the available dating of graves inside the mausoleum, Karimzade suggests that it was built in 1865-1867. [four]
The satirical poet of the 19th and early 20th centuries was buried in the cemetery. Mirza Alekper Sabir [5] .
Transcaucasian gyurza was found in the cemetery [6] .
Notes
- ↑ K.K. Gul, A.N. Guliev, A.A. Nadirov. Soviet Union: Geographical description: in the 22th t. Azerbaijan / Otv. ed. Sh. D. Aliev. - Thought, 1971. - T. 13. - S. 185. - 317 p.
- ↑ 1 2 K.M. Mamed-zade. Construction art of Azerbaijan (from ancient times to the XIX century.) / Ed. A.V. Salamzade. - Baku: Elm, 1983 .-- S. 63.
- ↑ Jeddy G.A. Medieval city of Shemakha (IX — XVII centuries). - B .: Elm, 1981 .-- S. 106 .-- 174 p.
- ↑ 1 2 Kerimzade, 1968 , p. 92.
- ↑ Aziz Mirakhmedov. Crying laughter. The life and work of M. A. Sabir. - Baku: Fiction, 1989. - S. 42. - 317 p.
- ↑ Alekperov A. M. To ecology and the spread of gyurza - Vipera lebetina (Linne, 1758) in Azerbaijan // Uchenye Zapiski ASU , a series of biological sciences. - 1961. - No. 4 . - S. 14 .
Literature
- Kerimzade S. Inscriptions of the Eddy Gunbez mausoleums // News of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. - B. , 1968. - No. 1 . - S. 74-92 .