Abstract
Ante (Tonči) Milošević, Croatian archaeologist, historian, art historian, and museologist, left us forever on 24 July 2025, leaving a vast void in the archaeology of the eastern Adriatic region and its wider hinterland. Milošević was born on 5 March 1953, in Sinj (Dalmatia, Croatia). He studied at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zadar, where he graduated, earned his master’s degree, and finally his doctorate in 2005. He served as director of the Museum of the Cetinska Krajina in Sinj (1977–1994) and as director of the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments (MHAS) in Split (1994–2005, and again from 2013 until his retirement in 2018), where he attained the rank of museum advisor (the highest rank within the Croatian museological hierarchy). Milošević was the founder and editor of the peer reviewed journal Zbornik Cetinske krajine, and, as director of MHAS, he served as editor-in-chief of the museum’s scholarly journal Starohrvatska prosvjeta. In 2017, he launched a new MHAS publication series, Corpus of Early Medieval Sculpture, aimed at cataloguing early medieval sculpture from the historical Croatian lands.