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https://doi.org/10.52064/vamz.54.1.16
Cemetery, graves and two churches in Lobor – problems and solutions
Krešimir Filipec
Abstract
The paper discusses the graves around the pre-Romanesque basilica
in Lobor, Our Lady of the Mountain. The main emphasis is
on the graves in relation to the time when it was already demolished.
After its demolition, the serial burial of the dead began in
the ruins and their interior. According to the archaeological finds,
the layer of graves above the ruins could be dated throughout
the 11th century, and no later than the middle of the 13th century,
when not only a certain prosperity is evident, but also the following
of trends then present throughout the Pannonian Plain
and surrounding areas, and a greater abundance of finds in the
graves, which had been present in smaller numbers in the earlier
period, when graves were almost devoid of finds. Thus, the
discontinuity between the demolition of the pre-Romanesque
church and the building of the late-Romanesque church extends
from the first third of the 11th century to the middle of the 13th.
Chronologically, this could be connected with events relating to
the re-entry of the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Otto
III in the second half of the 10th century, or the time when the
Hungarians first occupied these areas south of the River Drava,
possibly during the reign of the Hungarian King Stephen I, or perhaps
the time after the death of the Croatian King Zvonimir (after
1089), when northern Croatia was occupied by the Hungarians. At
the latest, this happened at the time of the Mongol invasion in
1242, but such an occurrence would be possible only if certain
types of objects were extended to the 13th century.
Keywords
cemetery, graves, 11th – 13th centuries, pre-Romanesque basilica, late-Romanesque church
Hrčak ID:
266461
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Publication date:
6.12.2021.
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