Ancient Marble Capital in the 'Arkadia' Park near Nieborów

• Authors: Jastrzebowska E.
• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses an ancient marble capital found in 1970s in the park Arkadia near Nieborów, Masowia, that until 1820s belonged to the prince Michal and Helena Radziwill. The capital was first published in 2001 and dated to the 3rd-4th cent. AD. The present authoress, however, argues for its dating to the second half of the 5th cent., pointing to similar Corinthian capitals from Constantinople, Ravenna, Rome, Venice and Chersonesus. The capital's dimensions (lower diam. 56 cm) suggest that it originally topped a free-standing (honorific?) column. It is likely to have been brought to Arkadia via Sankt Petersburg at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Keywords

EN

CORINTHIAN CAPITAL; NIEBORÓW (POLAND); POLISH COLLECTIONS

Discipline

• ARCHAEOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archeologia
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 55
• Pages: 41-45
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jastrzebowska E.

• E. Jastrzebowska, Accademia Polacca di Roma, Vicolo Doria 2, 00187 Roma, Italia

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA01874006