The tombs of the Crnojevic family make the most important historic value in the Monastery of Kom. Four untouched tomb stones are saved in the church naos. Tombs in the south belong to Aleksa and Djurdj Crnojevic, sons of Stefan, who are mentioned in historical sources between 1403 and 1435 year. First tomb of Ljes – Aleksa Crnojevic lies with its front just to the west wall. There is epitaph: “Sia ploca despota Stepana voevode mu Ljesa Crnojevica”. The sign is rather roughly carved into the rock. The other tomb has no epitaph and probably belongs to Djurdj Crnojevic. According to the place where it lies, there is an opinion that Djurdj was the true founder of the church.

Two other tombs belong to the next generation of the Crnojevic family, to Stefan and his wife Mara. Stefan` grave is next to his fathers` and they share the central space in the church. It also lacks epitaph, but according to tradition here rests Stefan Crnojevic. Tombs of Stefan and lady Mara, born as Kastrioti, Albanian princess and sister of Skenderbeg, parents of Ivan Crnojevic, have very pretty plastic ornament of stone. The decoration on the tomb of Stephan Crnojevic is similar to ornaments on stecak (a kind of old eastern tomb-stone). The pattern of four leafed floral curls which frame the stone on longer sides can be seen in an identical shape on tomb-stones in Grahovo and in the old graveyard around the church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Niksic. In the middle of the stone is ornament in the shape of six discs, vertically lined and attached to each other. On its shorter sides the stone is decorated with the pattern of repeated shallow triangles. The stone is well chiseled and has interesting structure.

The tomb-stone of lady Mara is the work of an even more skillful craftsman. Shorter then the tomb of her husband, it lies next to the north wall of the church. It is made of fine white stone and in some way repeats the pattern on Stefan` tomb. The stone is bordered with complicated ornament, typical for gothic style, so called “zioke na rabos”. It consists of alternately crooked rectangular fields. In the middle of the stone is the ornament made of three big seven leafed flowers, encircled with the same “zioke na rabos” ornament and composed in the line similar to the line of discs on the tomb of Stefan. There is epitaph “Sia ploca gospoge Mare”. The ornament on the tomb stone is carefully chiseled and it is the work of a skilful craftsman from the littoral put a lot off effort to make the tomb stone of Ivan `s mother looks like the most beautiful gothic plastic.

On the floor in naos, beside the tomb of lady Mara, there is a fragment of the stone with damaged epitaph. The threshold of altar, where Holy Doors stand, is decorated with a plate with the fish bone ornament and originates probably from the cotemporary times. As was previously said, there are many tomb stones in the porch, all roughly chiseled and some of them broken. It is assumed that they belong to monks of the Monastery of Kom. One stone plate with finely chiseled rosette is built in the south wall of the porch.

 

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