1/2 Further to the topic of #Muslim- #Christian tombstones in BiH, here is another example preserved in a village near Sokolac. No name or date. The stela is over 3m tall, no footstone. It lies in a still active Muslim #cemetery & the style places it in the late 15th/early 16th c.
2/3 One side shows a cross, the other a crescent & small (pretty) bird. As the village lay within the land of the noble Pavlović family, it likely reflects a practice found in early Ottoman cadaster registers in #BiH (that include details of villages, household heads adult males
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