Два надгробна натписа из Грабовице на Руднику из 1739. године
Two Gravestone Inscriptions from Grabovica on Rudnik from 1739

Summary/Abstract: This paper brings information about a few gravestones from the first half of the XVIII century, which still exist in the village graveyard in Grabovica on the southern slopes of Rudnik mountain. All the gravestones are made of yellowish sandstone in the form of cross and are situated in the central part of the graveyard with their frontal side facing west. Only two of these headstones have almost entirely preserved inscriptions, by which a precise conclusion about the time and circumstances of their construction can be established. Both epitaphs are dated in the early may of 1739 and they belong to members of the same family: the Radičević brothers – Dragić and Dragutin – from the Košani clan. Except the names of deceased and the dates of their death, inscriptions include the notion of their closest relatives who erected the headstones. Some of the characteristics of these epitaphs are popular language, the use of arabic ciphers and abundance of content. Although the fact that Grabovica was inhabited in the 1730’s is confirmed by the other documentary sources from the period of Austrian rule in Serbia, the analysed epigraphical sources offer some new particularities about the population of this village. There are not many preserved gravestones from the XVIII century in Central Serbia, especially those with complete inscriptions, and, therefore, this contibution represents a valuable supplement to the existing corpora of archaeological and epigraphical findings in the region.

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