ID: NGR-014254-P

Tombstone of Adam Matusewicz

Ryga | Latvia
łot. Rīga

St Michael's Cemetery in Riga

ID: NGR-014254-P

Tombstone of Adam Matusewicz

Ryga | Latvia
łot. Rīga

Burial place marked by cross on plinth. Cross perpetuated, lying beside gravestone. Cross with arms ending in a pyramid. At the intersection of the arms of the cross there are visible holes probably left by the figure of Christ. Plinth with chamfered top edges, tapering upwards. On the front side there is an engraved inscription. In front of the tombstone a band with profiled upper edges. The whole is enclosed by a fence consisting of 4 posts, tapering towards the top, of circular cross-section, originally probably connected with a chain.

Inscription:

TrosKliwa żona Prosi / przechodzących pomimo / o zmowienie Zdrowaś / Marya za Duszę / Adama Matusewicza / ur 1869 um 19. Kwiet. 1901 //.

Related persons:

Adam Matusewicz

Time of origin:

1901-1903

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Sector number 20 Tomb number 14

Dimensions:

46 x 80 x 172 cm

Additional dimensions:

cross: 102 x 46 x 10, plinth: 46 x 40 x 31, band: 20 x 80 x 125, fence:8 x 237 x 356

Materials:

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

Additional Information about materials:

Cross in grey granite, terrazzo band, posts in pink-grey granite

State of preservation:

mosses, lichens, fragmented structure, overturned finial (preserved)

Keywords:

cross (on a plinth)

Date of documentation:

2022

Author of the documentation sheet:

dr Magdalena Olszewska

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