Stećci is the name for monumental medieval tombstones.An estimated 60,000 tombstones scatter across Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the border parts of Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
There are horizontal and vertical tombstones, made of stone, with a flat or gable-top surface, with or without a pedestal. The common classification was established by Dmitrij Sergejevski in 1952. There are seven main shapes: slab, chest, chest with pedestal, ridge/gable, ridge/gable with pedestal, pillar, and cross.
According to Dubravko Lovrenović, there are nine types in Radimlja: slab, slab with pedestal, chest, chest with pedestal, tall chest, tall chest with pedestal, ridge/gable, sarcophagus with pedestal, cruciform.A fraction of stećci bear inscriptions, mostly in Cyrillic, some in Glagolitic and Latin script.
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