The Dobrašinović Family from Vrsinje (Dating of the Inscription on the Tombstone of Vukašin Dobrašinović from Konjsko near Trebinje) Cover Image

Dobrašinovići iz Vrsinja (Datiranje natpisa na stećku Vukašina Dobrašinovića iz Konjskog kod Trebinja)
The Dobrašinović Family from Vrsinje (Dating of the Inscription on the Tombstone of Vukašin Dobrašinović from Konjsko near Trebinje)

Author(s): Esad Kurtović
Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Regional Geography, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Dobrašinović; Vrsinje; Trebinje; Cultural history; Stećci; Konjsko;

Summary/Abstract: Previous attempts to determine the dating of the inscription on the tombstone of Vukašin Dobrašinović from Konjsko near Trebinje have not been convincing. It is apparent that through the numerous analyses of the contents, language, script or generally all internal or external characteristics of the tomb inscriptions, archival documents still represent the most reliable comparative corrective for the further study of the medieval Bosnian tombstones – stećci. It can be assumed that a large majority of the completed work on the study of the external characteristics of the tombstone inscriptions, primarily concerning the script, did not reach the satisfying standards by which the numerous stećci would be dated with more certainty. This is an open and insufficiently researched area which, after Marko Vego, Šefik Bešlagić, and other epigraphists, representatives of the old generations and pioneers in epigraphy, still does not have its specialist in modern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Even though the convincing parallel of the name and surname from the tomb inscription and those from the archival sources do not represent the final solution, Vukašin Dobrašinović from the stećak in Konjsko could be the same person recorded in archival documents dating from April 1421 and June 1428.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 39
  • Page Range: 163-171
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bosnian