Gundagsaz tombstone monuments
In the village of Gundagsaz in the present day Alagoz (Aragadz) district, Alexandropol uezd, Iravan governorate.
Iravan - from 1936 Yerevan, was a part of Abaran district until 15.03.1972, when Alagoz (Aragadz) district was formed. The village of Gundagsaz has been called Rya taza (Taza Hayat) since 25.01.1978.
Architecture
The ancient monuments in the old cemetery located close to village houses were destroyed by Armenians after the mass deportation of Azerbaijanis in 1988, haystacks of the villagers were collected in the cemetery. At the present time, some stone fragments belonging to the graves and only one grave horse statue and two tombs remain. Armenians present 2 tombs and chests belonging to Azerbaijanis to the international community as Yezid temples.
There are Albanian-Oghuz monuments from the ancient period in the area called the old cemetery in Gundagsaz village. Most of the graves in the ancient cemetery, which is located in the countryside and is located 50-60 meters from the houses in the village, have horse and ram sculptures and a knight holding a sword on a horse in a patterned frame on large tombstones, on the horse, there are images of a boy holding the bow of an arrow in a weighted position to hunt a gazelle (deer) in front of him, and images of a horse, a ram, a deer, and a gazelle.
The toponym is derived from the combination of the Turkish word kondak, which means "gun barrel" and the Turkish word saz, which means "swamp, soil where water comes out,clay". In the Turkish language, the word "kondak" is also used in the sense of "burning sulfur box and bucket opened during a fire", "a collection of combustible substances thrown into the yard or under the stairs". It is a toponym with a complex structure based on relief.