Tombstone of Jan Kiernik, Ternopil cemetery, as of 2016, photo Katarzyna Jachimowicz
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Fragment of Jan Kiernik's tombstone, Ternopil cemetery, 2016 status, photo Katarzyna Jachimowicz
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ID: NGR-012692-P

Tombstone of Jan Kiernik

Тернопіль | Ukraine

Mikuliniec Cemetery in Ternopil

ID: NGR-012692-P

Tombstone of Jan Kiernik

Тернопіль | Ukraine

Burial site originally marked by a statue on a two-stage plinth. Sculpture of a weeping woman on her own base, perched, headless, leaning against the plinth. The weeper is dressed in a long, slightly ruffled and belted robe with rolled up short sleeves and neckline. The woman has her left hand lowered; her right hand, bent at the elbow, rests against a high pedestal. With both hands she holds up a shawl slipped off her shoulders. The first step of the pedestal decorated with a lesbian kimation. Second step of pedestal originally covered by a slab with Ionic kimation. The slab is lost, leaning against the figure. On the plinth, on the front, an engraved inscription.

Inscription:

JAN A[D]OLF KIERNIK / C.K. KONTROLOR / KASSY OBWODOWEJ / TARNOPOLSKIEJ / URODZONY 24 GO / CZERWCA 1799 GO SKOŃCZYŁ ŻYCIE SWOIE / DANIA 25 GO LIPCA 1851. //.

Related persons:

Jan Kiernik

Time of origin:

ca. 1851

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Sector number 3f Tomb number 8

Dimensions:

122 x 90 x 95 cm

Additional dimensions:

statue: 138 x 60 x 25 (cm); plinth panel: 23 x 70 x 68 (cm)

Materials:

sandstone

State of preservation:

mosses, lichens, cracks, fragmented structure, cavities

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

broken: plaque covering plinth, weeping figure and head of figure; elements from other gravestones are lying by the plinth

Bibliography:

„Inskrypcje nagrobne pogranicza polsko-ukraińskiego”, t. 4, „Województwo tarnopolskie, miasto Tarnopol”, pod red. L. Morawieckiego, Rzeszów 2004, t. 4, s. 81.

Keywords:

figure, plinth (type of tombstone)

Date of documentation:

2016

Publikacja:

29.08.2022

Author of the documentation sheet:

Katarzyna Jachimowicz, Agnieszka Borowiecka

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

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

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