The analysis and comparison of the contents of inscriptions of the graves in Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in Tehran in two decades with the emphasis on outstanding values

Cemeteries are places that can describe customs, traditions and culture of societies by kind of mourning in the funeral, the method of encountering to the death phenomenon and inscriptions of the graves. The emergence of mourning customs, music, sounds of mourning, shapes and ceremonies content and also study on inscriptions and figures on the graves can show kind of attitude and outstanding values of communities. Tombstones are collection of visual and written symptoms. These symptoms can be considered as messages for posterity by looking at public culture. Significant changes in the form and method of landscaping of graves, arrangement of tombstones and statues and inscriptions, pictures and epitaphs express scenes of public culture and community values and even forgotten people which can be widely changed over time that in this research will be considered. Our study location is Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in Tehran and selection of tombstones which belong to the past two decades. By taking pictures of intended parts, we paid to classification of the graves in written, figurative signs, date of birth and death and other signs carved on rocks and after encoding we reached to final analysis. According to results, by looking at featured traditional values, monuments of the first decade of study (1995-2004) have been made socially and value-oriented by survivors. Whereas monuments of the second decade (2005-2015) have different values and luxury orientations have been highlighted by more individualistic looking in it.