Gravestone of the Gradek family, photo Adam Stańczyk, 2023
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ID: NGR-017281-P

Gravestone of the Gradek family

Karviná | Czech Republic

Cemetery in Karviná (district Doły)

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ID: NGR-017281-P

Gravestone of the Gradek family

Karviná | Czech Republic

The burial place marked by a tomb on a rectangular plan, covered by a wider slab. On it two narrower, rectangular, slightly convex slabs. At the head of the tomb is a gabled stele on a pedestal and base. The stele slightly tapering towards the top, polished, on the front with an engraved cross with arms ending in caps, below which an oval photograph and an engraved inscription (1). The top of the stele shows a trace of the attachment of a finial, possibly a cross. The photograph shows the bust shown frontally. The base is polished with chamfered top edges, on it an engraved signature to the front right. The polished pedestal, cuboidal on the front with a ritual inscription (2).

Inscription:

1. TU SPOCZYWA Ś.P. / JOANNA / GRADEK / *24.V.1881 +15.X.1924 / MIKOŁAJ/ *5.12.1877 +12.12.1959 / AGNIESZKA /*28.12.1889 +19.12.1943 / W OŚWIĘCIMIU / JAN / *5.12.1916 +5.1.2008 //.

2. ODPOCZYWAJ W POKOJU/ DROGA MAŁŻONKO I MATKO! //.

Time of origin:

ca. 1924-1927

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Sector number 10 (karviná) Tomb number A8

Dimensions:

160 x 250 x 282 cm

Additional dimensions:

photograph 10.5 x 9.5 cm

Materials:

terrazzo, porcelain / faience / porcelite, grey magmatic rocks (syenite, granodiorite, grey granite and others)

Additional Information about materials:

terrazzo tomb, grey granite stele, photograph on porcelain

Ceator's signature:

R. VAVRA. M. OSTRAVA //.

Creator:

R. Vavra, Ostrawa

State of preservation:

good

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

crack in the upper part of a portrait photograph

Keywords:

obelisk, gravestone monument

Date of documentation:

2023

Author of the documentation sheet:

Adam Stańczyk

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski

Sheet update:

Aleksandra Dąbkowska.

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