Tablet from a granary


Sisak 1803 Jurassic bituminous limestone, carved 54 x 118 x 16 cm The tablet was put up at Postic's warehouse on the bank of the river Kupa. The profiled edge holds a fairly long inscription in Latin, listing the owners and date of the beginning of the building of the granary. Each corner of the tablet holds a flower in relief. The lower part of the tablet shows a plastically figured riverboat. ANNO CHRISTI MDCCCIII / MOLEM QUAM LIMPHAE COLAPIS VIX / MENSIBUS OCTO SUREXISSE STUPENTE FAMIS / ATRAE TEMPORE POSTICH MARCUS CUM / PAULO POSUERUNT RUDERE IN ISTO M. Valentic, Kameni spomenici Hrvatske XIII-XIX stoljeca, Zagreb, 1969, pages 137-138. Two tablets of identical measures were donated to the Museum at the beginning of the 20th century, when Postic's warehouse in Sisak was demolished. Two tablets of identical measures were donated to the Museum at the beginning of the 20th century, when Postic's warehouse in Sisak was demolished. The tablet was restored by Slavimir Slavicek.




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