Tombstone of the Nowicki family and Joseph Python, Ross cemetery, state of 2013, photo autorzy karty, Public domain
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Fragment of the tombstone of the Nowicki family and Joseph Python, Ross cemetery, as of 2013, photo autorzy karty, Public domain
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Tombstone of the Nowicki family and Joseph Python

Vilnius | Lithuania

Rossa Cemetery in Vilnius

ID: NGR-010205-P/80598

Tombstone of the Nowicki family and Joseph Python

Vilnius | Lithuania

The tomb covered by a slab at the head of which is originally a cross stylised as a tree trunk on a rock-shaped plinth. The shattered cross lies next to the tombstone, on the pedestal at the front convex carved ivy leaves below a plaque with earlobes with an engraved inscription (1). In front of the plinth a circular garrigue preceded by a band closed at the top by a full overhanging arch. The panel framed by seven plinths joined by melata bars. On the front axis at the entrance to the tomb a slab with metal entablatures, framed by two panels on the right in the smaller one originally with an inscription plaque. Behind the tomb in the cemetery wall an engraved inscription plaque (2).

Inscription:

1. + / GROBY / NOWICKICH //. front gobowca: Ś.+[P] / CELINA I [...] / NOW[...] //.
2. Ś. + P. / JAKUB NOWICKI / ZM. 2[2] IV 1854 R. LAT 75 / MARIA [Z] JANKOWSKICH / [Nowicka] / [Zm. 4. X. 1875 lat 73] //.

Time of origin:

circa 1936

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Sector number 15a (Old Rossa) Tomb number 50

Dimensions:

145 x 377 x 373 cm

Materials:

marble, concrete/jewel concrete, labradorite, iron

Additional Information about materials:

Labradorite cross, plinth, band, slab and pedestals in concrete, pedestals connected by iron bars

Additional information:

According to the records of Wacław Wejtka, referring to Antoni Łazarowicz, originally Jakub Nowicki was commemorated by a separate tombstone erected by his wife and children. On the other hand, there were plaques on the tomb with the inscription: Józef / Nowicki / died 9/IV 1890 / aged 61 //., Franciszka née Dobrowolska / Nowicka / Died 19. XII. 1917 at the age of 77 //., S. + P. / Jozef Franciszek / Python / Civil Engineer / retired, Councillor of the Chamber of Control / State in Vilnius / born 1 June 1864 / died 11 April 1935 //. The first two plaques were made of stone imitating marble and contained photographs of the deceased. The third plaque was made of tin. The gravestone mentioned in: A. Śnieżko, "Rossa - miasto umarłych. Groby zasłużonych", Wrocław 1970 mps in the collection of the Ossolineum Library in Wrocław, pp. 362-364.

State of preservation:

numerous cavities, mosses, lichens, cracks, non-maintained finial

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/.
Czyż Anna Sylwia, Gutowski Bartłomiej , „Cmentarz na Rossie w Wilnie. Niezachowane pomniki na podstawie kartotek Wacława Wejtki, Lucjana Uziębły i Aleksandra Śnieżki”, Warszawa 2021.
Śnieżko, A. „Rossa - miasto umarłych. Groby zasłużonych”, t. 1, Wrocław 1970, maszynopis w zbiorach PAU Kraków.

Keywords:

tomb

Date of documentation:

2013

Publikacja:

16.08.2022

Author of the documentation sheet:

Weronika Sołtysiak

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

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

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