ID: NGR-000976-P

Tombstone of Izabella Bórawska, Bolutek Bórawski

Ryga | Latvia
łot. Rīga

Cemetery at St Francis Church

ID: NGR-000976-P

Tombstone of Izabella Bórawska, Bolutek Bórawski

Ryga | Latvia
łot. Rīga

The burial is marked by a stele and a coffin-shaped sarcophagus; the stele is rectangular, on a rectangular base and a pedestal with rounded edges, the stele is topped by a two-stepped settee with a curved base and straight sides of the slab, on the slab there is a crowning in the form of a half-dome, the walls of the stele are smoothly worked with traces of black paint, the letters of the inscription are carved in stone; in front of the stele a coffin-shaped sarcophagus - higher in the heads, the sides of the sarcophagus arched, it is covered in three stages - two lower slabs with rounded edges, the upper slab smaller, on the side walls of the sarcophagus - two longer and in the heads, in the middle of each of them are placed putti - a child's head on two wings, in the legs of the sarcophagus a circular flower with a cross inscribed in it with arms made of acanthus leaves, at their crossing an oval cameo, the flower is placed on horizontal acanthus leaves.

Inscription:

Na steli:
PoKój / Jej / cieniom / Izabelli \ Worotyncó / Bórawskiej / zmarłej 30 Sierp. 1868 / Żyła lat 37. / Tu i Bolutek mały / Spoczywa oboK swej Mamy / Żył mies 4 Um: 1 Grud. 1866.
Na podstawie steli:
Spoczywaj w Bogu po trudach / spełniłaś Żony i Matki / zadanie.

Time of origin:

ca. 1868 - 1940

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Tomb number 08

Dimensions:

138 x 67 x 210 cm

Additional dimensions:

stele - 138 x 63 x 38 sarcophagus - 45 x 63 x 150

Materials:

concrete/jewel concrete

Additional Information about materials:

stele - granite, putti on sarcophagus - white concrete

State of preservation:

numerous cavities, mosses, lichens, schropowacenia, inscription partly obliterated

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

on the left side of the sarcophagus a cavity and exposed reinforcement, next to it a cavity in the wing of the putti and exposed reinforcement, dirt on the stele, its base partly sunk into the ground, the lower line of the inscription almost invisible. Tombstone probably moved from the old Catholic cemetery, secondarily placed in the area of the arranged small cemetery at St Francis Church

Bibliography:

Karta dokumentacyjna obiektu zabytkowego poza granicami kraju, powiat buczacki, zbiór przechowywany w Ministerstwie Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego, Warszawa..

Keywords:

stele, sarcophagus, stone coffin

Date of documentation:

2021

Author of the documentation sheet:

dr Magalena Tarnowska

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski

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