DoloviāPoljice steÄak necropolis | |
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Dolovi-Poljice, cultural landscape | |
![]() DoloviāPoljice steÄak necropolis | |
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Details | |
Established | 15-16th century |
Location | |
Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Type | Medieval steÄak necropolis |
Owned by | State |
No. of graves | ? |
Website | ? |
Official name | Dolovi-Poljice, cultural landscape |
Type | Category 0 cultural property |
Designated | November 6, 2002 (-th KONS session; decision No. 01-275/02) |
Part of | The natural and architectural ensemble of Stolac |
Reference no. | 3818 |
List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
DoloviāPoljice steÄak necropolises, are located in the immediate vicinity of the summer katun (livestock hurders' settlement) of Poljice, on the VisoÄica mountain, 25 km from Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the middle of the 11th century, the area of Mount VisoÄica, in Župa Neretva, was annexed to the Bosnian state. From then until Ban Tvrtko I came to power in 1353, it had a special status. At the beginning of the 15th century, there was a division into the King's demesne and the feudal area of Hum under Stjepan KosaÄa. The border between two zemljas was roughly the river Neretva.
The locality of Veliko jezeroāPoljice is located at an altitude of 1691 m above sea level, below the peak of Ljeljen. The KONS listed necropolis a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina. [1]
There are 49 steÄaks in the necropolis, counted according to usual steÄak form classification, 33 slabs, 10 chests and 6 gables. They are very well cut, but they are damaged and overturned. Of 49, 11 examples are decorated, including 7 slabs, 1 chest and 3 gables. Decorations include trefoil and slash trefoil border, trefoil frieze, twisted ribbon, zigzag border, simple arcades, crescent and original depictions of a man holding a child and a man with a staff, alongside a horse and a bird. [2]
The locality of DoloviāPoljica is located on the western side of the road that leads from Gornja TuÅ”ila to Odžaci (BjelimiÄi), at an altitude of 1479 m. The necropolis, together with the location where stone processing workshop once was, and the wider landscape, is listed a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina. [1] There are 52 steÄaks in the necropolis, including 24 slabs, 22 chests, 2 gables and 4 crosses per usual steÄak form classification. Decorative ornaments are recorded on seven monuments: 4 slabs, 2 gables and 1 cross. Their decorative motifs include plain and twisted band, frieze of bent vine with trefoils, band of zigzag and oblique lines, hunting scenes, chariot scenes and specific representations of woman and dragon, as well as woman, horseman and dragon. [2]
On two steÄaks there are inscriptions written in Bosnian Cyrillic: The transcription of the inscription on the cross-shaped one reads: A SE LEŽI NA POKON I RABRENŠ¬ VUKIÄŠ¬ DOLINOVIÄŠ¬. Above the inscription there is a motif of a cross in a circle, the arms of which in extension end as circles. Above the decoration of the cross there is a semicircular arch, while in the gable there is a half-apple motif. The decoration is made with a combination of relief protrusions and recesses, dating after 1496. [3]
Inscription on the gable: ā VA IME OCA I SINA, SVETOGA DUHA A SE LEŽI VUKOSAVŠ¬ LUPÄIÄŠ¬ (LUPOVÄIÄŠ¬) ā . On the eastern side, there is a representation of a horseman attacking a dragon with a spear that has already taken a woman's hand, while above the horseman's head there is part of an inscription. In the upper part of the steÄak, under the edges of the roof surfaces, on all four sides of the steÄak, there is a vine with a trefoil under which there is a twisted ribbon. On the western side, there is a shrine with several animals. [2]
Near DoloviāPoljice necropolis, at a distance of up to 200 m, a quarry was found, and another at a distance of up to 500 m in the northwest direction, where the stones were cut and finished steÄaks processed and decorated. [4]