Preliminary communication

The religious medal found in grave 253 at Gora near Petrinja

Sebastijan Stingl orcid.org/0000-0002-9203-1650 ; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Marijana Belaj orcid.org/0000-0002-7231-7811 ; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, , Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

During the archaeological excavations at the site of Gora, in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 426 graves were found and explored, only a few of which can be dated with certainty to the youngest, modern-period burial horizon. In grave 253, the grave from this horizon with the most finds, the body was accompanied by luxury devotional objects; a particularly beautiful and well-made object is a medal with the Virgin Mary and Child in a crescent on the obverse and Saint Florian on the reverse. This paper analyses these unique images and tries to answer the question about the origin of the medal from Gora.

Keywords

Gora; modern period; devotional objects; religious medal; Virgin Mary; Saint Florian

Hrčak ID:

269902

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/269902

Publication date:

31.12.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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