JE LI CRKVA U BILIMIŠĆU KOD ZENICE SREDNJOVIJEKOVNA GRAĐEVINA?
IS THE CHURCH IN BILIMIŠĆE NEAR ZENICA AN EARLY-MEDIEVAL STRUCTURE?

Summary/Abstract: For over a century now, in the art history and archaeology there have been present remains of relieves from Christian churches in tire present Bosnia and Herzegovina, usually dated to the Paleo- Christian period in particular the 5th and the 6 centuries, which is the time when these areas were ailed by the Ostrogoths (490-535), This Germanic people is, therefore, often staled as the main initiator of building and decorating of these interesting West-Balkans churches. However, the relatively large number of sacral structures in this area makes us expect many other finds of Gothic character, which has not come tine. Almost no Gothic coins have been found, and tire jewellery found so far, as related to other surrounding areas, are very few. These archaelogical facts cause great suspicions about such dieses on (lie time and builders of these churches. The first to write about these monuments, in the end of the 19th ct„ was Ć. Truhelka, who claimed them firstly to be products of the “Old-Croatian pre-Romanesque architecture”, then a blend made under the Lombard and Old-Croatian influences. In his later works, Truhelka gave such interpretations up and, as most o f the contemporary researchers, agreed to the earlier dating m the 5th and the 6*' ct. Some thirty years ago, considerations about these buildings were also presented by two Serbian art historians, l. Nikolajević and I. Maksimović, who see these monuments as a specific reflection of the Byzantine and early-Romanesque stone dressing and, as relics of Serbian early-medieval art, date them to the 11th and 12th ct. Most other foreign experts, supporting mostly the Bosnian researchers, committed themselves for the Paleo-Christian period

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