Sljemenasti poklopci iz Bihaćkog polja
Peak- roof lids from Bihaćko polje

Summary/Abstract: The 51 peak-roof lids have been analyzed (29 with inscriptions in Latin, from which 10 with ornaments, and 22 with no marking on) which have been found in four sites in Bihaćko polje, in the barrows in Ribić, Jezerine in the village of Pritoka, and in Crkvina and Dolovi in the municipality of Golubić. Two lids, found in the wider region of Jezerine and one from Crkvine in Golubić, are presented in more details, which so far have not been registered in scientific literature (no. 6-7 and 18; Tab. 1, 6-7; Tab. 2, 8). The conditions of the found lids have been commented on, from which twenty-three were found in situ on graves with the ashes of the deceased in ceramic bowl or in the ground, whole or more or less damaged inscriptions on which 19 Roman and 20 local names were presented, some written in one-word or two-words autochthonous name formulas. Amongst the lids with preserved information about the age of the deceased, it has been concluded the lids to be dedicated mostly to younger persons between 20 and 30 years of age (11), children to the age of 10 (4), and mature persons between 40 and 60 years of age (3), whereas for one it is not certain if it refers to the mark of old age of 90 or unclear abbreviations (Tab. 1, 5). Modest ornaments on xxx lids matches more versatile ornaments on epigraphic urns and tomb from this area, the leading ornament is six-leaf rosette, in the combination of three rosettes, which is considered to represent three postures of the sun - sunrise, zenith, and sunset. Symbolical meaning of this ornament corresponds to the belief of the movement of the soul after death and continuing of life in the astral spheres. The attention is directed to data about the presence of slaves in Iapodian society that appears on two peak-roof lids (no. 10 and 12; Tab. 1, 10; 2,2).

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