Original scientific paper
Archaeological research of the church of St. Luke in Kučiće in the Omiš hinterland in the light of the early history of the village
Marinko Tomasović
orcid.org/0000-0003-4148-4470
; Makarska Municipal Museum, Makarska, Croatia
Abstract
In the summer of 2016, Kučiće, a village in the hinterland of Omiš, was the site of archaeological re- search of the church of St. Luke, erected in its present appearance in the mid-18th century and extended in the second half of the 19th century. The village was mentioned in documents from the 13th and 14th centuries, and the church in sources from 1620, during the Ottoman rule, which reliably referred to a medieval structure on the location of the existing church. The research within the church revealed the foundations of a small-sized single-nave Gothic church with a shallow rectangular apse. It is dated to the period from the mid-14th century to the mid-15th century, which further eliminates the assumptions concerning the location of the Kučiće parish church at Mijovilišće. We should allow for the possibility that a segment of the wall of the tomb chamber in front of the sanctuary represents the remnant of the semicircular apse of an earlier, Romanesque church.
Keywords
church of St. Luke and cemetery in sources from 17th c.; Gothic type of church in 14th–15th c.; Mijovilišće; Povilo/Crkvina, demographic growth; church construction and expansion in 18th and 19th c;
Hrčak ID:
258557
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Publication date:
1.6.2021.
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