Prof. Dr. Erol Altınsapan, who had a scientific doubts about the sarcophagus, submitted films which he kept in his private archive to Prof. Dr. Mehmet Mahur Tulum for philological examination. As a result of the philological examination comparing the sarcophagus with the gravestone of Nasreddin Hodja’s daughter Hatun, it was proven that Nasreddin Hodja’s name was Nasreddin Nusrat. Thus, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Mahur Tulum revealed that the sarcophagus did not belong to Nasreddin Hodja’s son Ömer, but to Nasreddin Hodja himself and announced his finding in a press conference held in ETİ Museum of Archaeology on 16 May 2013.
SAHİBU HAZE’L-KABRU EL-MUHTAC İLARAHMETI’LLAH / NASRUDDİN HOCA NS…- İBNI ŞEMSUDDİN BABA“THIS SARCOPHAGUS BELONGS TO NASREDDİN HODJA NS…, SON OF ŞEMSETTİN BABA, WHO IS IN NEED OF ALLAH’S MERCY”
