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Tombstone of Jan Kiernik, Ternopil cemetery, as of 2016, photo Katarzyna Jachimowicz
Photo showing Tombstone of Jan Kiernik
Fragment of Jan Kiernik's tombstone, Ternopil cemetery, 2016 status, photo Katarzyna Jachimowicz
Photo showing Tombstone of Jan Kiernik
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ID: NGR-012692-P/87750

Tombstone of Jan Kiernik

Тернопіль | Ukraine
Mikuliniec Cemetery in Ternopil
ID: NGR-012692-P/87750

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

Ostatnia aktualizacja:

20.01.2025

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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Tombstone of Jan Kiernik, Ternopil cemetery, as of 2016 Photo showing Tombstone of Jan Kiernik Gallery of the object +1
Tombstone of Jan Kiernik, Ternopil cemetery, as of 2016, photo Katarzyna Jachimowicz
Fragment of Jan Kiernik's tombstone, Ternopil cemetery, 2016 status Photo showing Tombstone of Jan Kiernik Gallery of the object +1
Fragment of Jan Kiernik's tombstone, Ternopil cemetery, 2016 status, photo Katarzyna Jachimowicz
Photo showing Tombstone of Jan Kiernik

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