Dvije kamene srednjovjekovne glave u Muzeju Slavonije

The Collection of Medieval Stone Monuments of the Museum of Slavonia of Osijek involves, apart from architectonic elements, two stone heads. Although the heads were unclassified and lacked data on their origin and discovery site until recently, the handover record of 1971 suggests that the Regional Institute for Monument Protection rendered, along with other medieval findings from various sites, ’the head of a stone sculpture’ found in a medieval church in Voćin during protection works. The church was the prominent and now again restored Late Gothic Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Since other field documentation includes no data on its discovery, the head is likely to have been found during clearance of the church and Franciscan monastery premises. Now there is the problem of determining which head was found in the Voćin church. Katarina and Eufrozina, Nikola Iločki’s daughters and Lovro Iloćki’s sisters, had the church and the Franciscan monastery of Voćin (oppidum Athyna, Attina) built in the last decade of the 15th century. After the Ottoman occupation of Voćin in 1543, the abode in the monastery and church was terminated and the buildings were severely devastated. The fragmentarily preserved and severely damaged head of Christ crowned with thorns was initially considered ’the head of the stone sculpture’ of Voćin because the other head with an ivy wreath was later found in the depot. Analysis of the stone which the heads were made of has catered both for general data on possible places where the sculpture was made and for some specific indicators such as the way of deterioration and emergence of damage or the content of the white protective coating. The attempt of iconographic analysis and search for closer analogies for the second, finely shaped head with a youthful face and curly hair covered with an English ivy wreath have not given any concrete results, just some indications. The position of the head with respect to the fully preserved neck implies that this might be a full figure staring at something above(Christ on the cross, another person) or a head serving as a decorative console table. This issue has entailed different opinions in the paper as well as has its dating. Beside the common standpoint that this is highly valuable late mediaeval stone figural plastics, particularly if the lack of any evidence of the kind from the pre-Turkish period in eastern Croatia is taken into consideration, the head with an ivy wreath has a