The Dobrašinović Family from Vrsinje (Dating of the Inscription on the Tombstone of Vukašin Dobrašinović from Konjsko near Trebinje)

Abstract

Previous attempts to determine the dating of the inscription on the tombstone of Vukašin Dobrašinović from Konjsko near Trebinje have not been convincing. It is apparent that through the numerous analyses of the contents, language, script or  generally all internal or external characteristics of the tomb inscriptions, archival documents still represent the most reliable comparative corrective for the further study of the medieval Bosnian tombstones – stećci. It can be assumed that a large majority of the completed work on the study of the external characteristics of the tombstone inscriptions, primarily concerning the script, did not reach the satisfying standards by which the numerous stećci would be dated with more certainty.
This is an open and insufficiently researched area which, after Marko Vego, Šefik Bešlagić, and other epigraphists,  epresentatives of the old generations and pioneers in epigraphy, still does not have its specialist in modern Bosnia and  Herzegovina. Even though the convincing parallel of the name and surname from the tomb inscription and those from the archival sources do not represent the final solution, Vukašin Dobrašinović from the stećak in Konjsko could be the same person recorded in archival documents dating from April 1421 and June 1428. This information is the lowest chronological limit for the
determining of the time when the inscription on the tombstone might have originated from.