Guide
The tomb stands in the courtyard of the Ahmet Gazi Mosque at Çine, to the south-east of the mosque. It is thought to belong either to Ahi Bayram, brother of Ahmet Gazi, or to a man named İbrahim Efendi.
Dated to the first half of the fourteenth century, it belongs to the group of tombs built with an iwan, and is thought to have been raised at the beginning of that century, under the beylik of Menteşe. It is four-sided in plan and of two storeys, covered by a dome. Three of its walls each have a window, and above the lower structure an octagonal drum carries an eight-sided pyramidal cap.
Large blocks of marble were used in the building, together with brick, which was little used in this period; the bricks are laid in alternating courses, one flat and the next on edge. As at the Ahmet Gazi Mosque, reused pieces of the Byzantine period were built into the tomb.
The iwan opening on the north front is a wide round arch. Over the drum, formed of bricks set upright side by side, runs a thin course of stone moulding, above which the eight sides meet at a point to form the pyramidal roof. Inside, the dome rests on Turkish triangles.
In the floor is a square opening looking down into the burial chamber below, which must also have served to ventilate it. On the north are the stairs down to that chamber and its doorway, with jambs made of carved blocks of the Byzantine period.
