Nagrobek Maksymiliana Orłowskiego, cmentarz Kukijski, Tbilisi, photo Jerzy Szałygin, 2007, all rights reserved
Source: Instytut Polonika, Modified: yes

Photo showing Tombstone of Maksymilian Orłowski

Nagrobek Maksymiliana Orłowskiego, cmentarz Kukijski, Tbilisi, photo Jerzy Szałygin, 2007, all rights reserved
Source: Instytut Polonika

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ID: NGR-018501-P/165382

Tombstone of Maksymilian Orłowski

Tbilisi | Georgia

Kukij cemetery

ID: NGR-018501-P/165382

Tombstone of Maksymilian Orłowski

Tbilisi | Georgia

At the head of a virtually invisible earth grave (level with the ground), a plinth with a cuboidal base and shaft and an oval granite base supporting the cast-iron lower part of a metal cross. On the cast-iron part a kneeling angel with the arms of the cross entwined with the 'tree of life'. The cast-iron and metal part secondary, added about 15 years ago after the granite cross was probably lost.
The granite pedestal bears a marble plaque, closed at the top with a segmented arch.

Inscription:

D.O.M. / Pralatus Maximilianus / Orlowsky / Magister Theologiae / qui ecclesiam panochiaelem Tyflis / sensem S. S. Apost. Petri et Pauli / condidit ..lgue aedificavitparochiae / euis per anno XIV pro stilit omni- / bus Roman-catolicis in Caucaso / ecelesiis administraros per anno XL / summum eorum praebuil / Anno vitae LXXVIII a sua / parochial collaerymatus die / 14 Febr. Anno 1891mortibus est / - . - / Sub Tibi terra levis Honorabilis / Ecclesiarebus //.

Related persons:

Maksymilian Orłowski

Time of origin:

1891

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Tomb number 12

Dimensions:

565 x 85 x 51 cm

Additional dimensions:

base of plinth: 130 x 85 x 15, plinth 1: 106 x 68 x 26, plinth 2: 85 x 54 x 50, granite base of cross: 92 x 70 x 50, cast iron section under cross: 52 x 30 x 51, cross: 100

Materials:

coloured magmatic rocks (granite, syenite and others), marble, cast iron, steel, Volcanic tuff

State of preservation:

sufficient

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

Good state of preservation of plinth. Poor state of preservation of the cast-steel cross. Numerous rust efflorescences and paint flaking indicating progressive corrosion. Poor state of preservation of the marble inscription panel - some letters of the Latin inscription virtually illegible.