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Polychrome Funeral Vessels from Canosa in Czartoryski Museum in Cracow

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Gorzelany D.
Archeologia
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2003
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vol. 54
35-41
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In the Princes Czartoryski Museum in Cracow are kept three funeral vessels from Canosa: one oinochoe and two askoi. Prince Wladyslaw Czartoryski bought the latter from the Collection Janzé in 1866, and the oinochoe, found in 1843 in the chamber tomb Lagrasta I, from the Collection Gréau in 1891. The shape and plastic decoration of the askoi is typical of Daunian vessels, with painted motifs patterned upon Apulian red-figured vases. The polychrome and plastic decoration reflects the beliefs about the dead's fate in the underworld. Winged female figures connote his/her passage to the nether-world. Interpreted as Nikai, they suggest a marriage ceremony, as do also throning young women. As mermaids, they are benevolent, tutelary spirits sweetening the dead's existence in Elysium. Likewise, the representations of Erotes and children are intended to assure happiness of the departed spirits of the dead. They bring to mind the Dionysiac sphere; hence, they grant the dead's request to be admitted to the sacred thiasos and help him/her to conquer his/her fear of the underworld. The mask of Medusa has a similar symbolical meaning. A female figure with a phiale and alabastron is to be interpreted in the context of the offering to the dead on his/her grave. Archeologia vol. 54/2003 (2004), p. 35-41 Key words:
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War Fortunes of two Silver Plates from the Goluchów Collection

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Zelazowski J.
Archeologia
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2005
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vol. 56
157-158
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Documentation surviving in the Collection of Ancient Art in the National Museum in Warsaw enables reconstruction of the history of part of the Goluchów collection during World War II. At the time the objects, including two silver plates published in this volume of 'Archeologia' (pp. 107-131), were hidden in cellars of the Czartoryski family house in Warsaw, 12 Kredytowa str. The hiding place was found by the Germans in 1941, and all the objects were moved to the National Museum in Warsaw, where they were kept until 1944. In October 1944, after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, the Goluchów collection was taken away by German troops, but some of the objects, the two plates among them, were found soon after that and brought back to the National Museum. They were introduced into the Museum's register in 1947.
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Ancient Marble Capital in the 'Arkadia' Park near Nieborów

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Jastrzebowska E.
Archeologia
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2004
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vol. 55
41-45
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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.
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