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faithfully during his life. After his death he 

 erected a tomb to him with the help of God, and 

 by the grace of the Duke Paul. And bury also of 

 this family, at the right hand of the Voivode 

 Miotos as many as ye wish. By my hand on this 

 soil, to whomsoever it may have belonged, no one 

 has died, or been killed in a punishable manner." 



(A strange commentary on the above is found 

 on a tomb eight miles away, the inscription on 

 which runs : " Here lies Grabaca, the faithful 

 (wife ?) of the Voivode Miotos, and here. . . .") 



Both these huge tombstones are of a red lime- 

 stone not found in the neighbourhood, and, from 

 the orthography of the epitaphs, are referable to 

 the earlier Bogumilite period. 



At Han Brankovic, in the same district, is a 

 peculiar tomb, probably referable to the end of the 

 period, the stone being an upright pillar, exactly 

 like those of the Turks, but without a turban. 

 The inscription is headed by a curious representa- 

 tion of an animal (possibly a greyhound), crowded 

 to one side by a rude sword. On the other sides 

 are crescents, suns, rosettes, and on one side a 

 head (? a skull). It reads : " . . . and he fell in the 

 battle of the despot. This tomb of Mahomet 

 Brankovic, although on his own property, the 

 Petrovupolje, was not brought here nor inscribed 

 by his own hand." The forbidden representation 

 of animal life on a Mahometan tomb is curious. 



