25.ULUSLARARASI ORTAÇAĞ VE TÜRK DÖNEMİ KAZILARI VE SANAT TARİHİ ARAŞTIRMALARI
LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD CHRISTIAN LITURGICAL ARTIFACTS IN KONYA IZZET KOYUNOĞLU CITY MUSEUM
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Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Yayınları
The subject of the research is a silver ceremonial cross, a rhipidion / liturgical fan, book cover plates and icons belonging to the late Ottoman Period Christians, exhibited in the İzzet Koyunoğlu City Museum, registered in Topraklık Neigbordhood, Kerimler Street No.25 in Karatay District of Konya. Ahmet Rasih İzzet Koyunoğlu (1900-1974), whose name is given to the museum, was sent to Germany by the TCDDM in 1928 for education, and upon his return from education, he was promoted to the Chief Inspector of the State Railways. Koyunoğlu, who retired in 1956, donated his family home and the works he collected to Konya Municipality on July 4, 1973. The foundation of the new museum was laid in July 1977 and it was opened to tourists in February 1984. In addition to the archaeological artifacts collected by Koyunoğlu, there are books, ethnographic artifacts and natural history objects in the museum. He died on September 22, 1974, when he was the director of the first private museum established by the municipalities. Koyunoğlu, who spent most of her life collecting artifacts for the museum, is also registered in the inventory books as the person who donated the artifacts, which are the subject of the study, to the museum. During the museum research we carried out in 2019, it is determined that only the Silver Ceremonial Cross (Inv. No.: 2357) published among the artifacts whose form, technical and general characteristics were examined, but the other artifacts (a silver rhipidion / liturgical fan, book cover plates and icons; ‘’Entrance to Jerusalem (Inv. No.: 3147), Analepsis / Ascension of Jesus (Inv. No.: 3148), Christ Pantokrator and 12 Apostles (Inv. No.: 3130), St. Luke (Inv. No.: 3149), St. Simeon (Inv. No.: 3145), St. John (Inv. No.: 3131), St. Panteleimon (Inv. No.: 3132), Archangel Michael (Inv. No.: 3146)’’, have not been examined in any scientific study before. The metal works are made of silver, seven of the icons are wooden, and one is fixed to a wooden plate and made with rope, spangles and beads on velvet. Within the scope of the study, the photographs of the liturgical works dated to the 18th-20th centuries were taken and their drawings were prepared, and their descriptions were completed after the documentation processes. Artifacts examined in catalogue; in the scope of material-technical, ornamentation, style and iconographic features, it has been evaluated in comparison with similar, contemporary examples in Anatolia, especially in Konya and outside Anatolia, and suggestions about the production areas of the works and the religious structure / structures they belong to are presented.
