Kočerin tablet
The Kočerin Tablet is a medieval tablet with an inscription written in Bosnian Cyrillic, in an archaic West Stokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian, using Ikavian pronunciation. History and discovery The stećak tombstone, which is placed on the grave of Viganj Milošević, was cut and inscribed in 1404 or 1405. The text is positioned on the bottom of the stećak, which is discovered in a necropolis Lipovac, in a field just west and outside of today’s village of Kočerin, away from the town of Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where it was discovered in 1983. In 1872, stećak was moved to Kočerin and built-in into the right side of the local parochial office wall. In May 2004, it was carefully removed from the office wall and exhibited in the parochial premises in Kočerin. Dimensions The tablet measures across on the bottom, in the middle, and at the top. It measures in height. The top part is damaged. Text The tablet contains 25 rows of script, with 9-15 characters on each line. There are 300 characters in total and represents the largest known text in Bosnian Cyrillic. The text displays a large number of ligatures. It is written in a Shtokavian Ikavian dialect,