Tombstone of Leopold and Catherine Amoretti, Na Rossie cemetery, Vilnius, 2012, photo Magdalena Piecyk, Public domain
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Inscription on the gravestone of Leopold and Catherine Amoretti, Na Rossie cemetery in Vilnius, as of 2012, photo Magdalena Piecyk, Public domain
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Leopold and Catherine Amoretti's Nagobek

Vilnius | Lithuania
lit. Vilnius

Rossa Cemetery in Vilnius

Tombstone of Leopold and Catherine Amoretti, Na Rossie cemetery, Vilnius, 2012

$Fotografia przedstawiająca Leopold and Catherine Amoretti\'s Nagobek$

Inscription on the gravestone of Leopold and Catherine Amoretti, Na Rossie cemetery in Vilnius, as of 2012

$Fotografia przedstawiająca Leopold and Catherine Amoretti\'s Nagobek$

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Leopold and Catherine Amoretti's Nagobek

Vilnius | Lithuania
lit. Vilnius

Burial site originally marked by a cast-iron cross on a two-stage plinth and concrete base. Cross on plinth, with moulded arms ending in a donkey's back. Cross fractured, hammered into band on right side. The first step of the plinth with chamfered top edges, an inscription engraved on the front (1). Second step of pedestal in the form of an obelisk with moulded upper edges, overturned. On the front an engraved inscription (2). In front of the plinth two concrete bands. The whole originally enclosed by a fence of four cylindrical posts connected by a cast iron bar.

Inscription:

1. S.P. / Leopold / AMORETTI / Pułkownik wojsk Ros. / zm. 20 Maja 1884 r. wieku lat 59. / Boże! zbaw duszę jego. //.
2. S.P. / Katarzyna / [...] Malinowskich/ AMORETTI / zm. 23 Marca / 1885 r. / wieku lat 35. / Prosi o westchnienie do Boga. //.

Related persons:

Leopold Amoretti
Katarzyna Amoretti

Time of origin:

1884-1889

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Tomb number 70

Dimensions:

45 x 55 x 48 cm

Additional dimensions:

Cross: 42 x 36 x 3, 2nd step of plinth: 107 x 43 x 35, band: 27 x 45 x 14, fence: 71 x 232 x 197 (cm)

Materials:

coloured magmatic rocks (granite, syenite and others), dark magmatic rocks (basalt, diabase, gabbro, monzonite and others)

Additional information:

second line in inscription on 1st st of pedestal and lines 2, 5, 6, 7 in inscription on 2nd st of pedestal in italics

State of preservation:

cracks, fragmented structure, tombstone overturned

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

cross broken into the band in front of the gravestone

Bibliography:

„Cmentarz na Rossie w Wilnie, badania inwentaryzacyjne”, katalog on-line, opr. Anna Sylwia Czyż i Bartłomiej Gutowski, dostęp on-line http://cmentarznarossie.uksw.edu.pl/.

Keywords:

cross (on a plinth)

Date of documentation:

2012

Author of the documentation sheet:

Magdalena Piecyk

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, dr hab. Anna Sylwia Czyż, prof. ucz.

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