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SKARBY ZIEMI WYDARTE. GÓRNY ŚLĄSK I POGRANICZE Red. Eugeniusz Tomczak, Wyd. Śląskie Centrum Dziedzictwa Kulturowego w Katowicach, Katowice 2005

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Krajewska M.

Ochrona Zabytków

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2006

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issue 2

115-119

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The album 'Skarby ziemi wydarte. Gorny Slask i pogranicze' (Treasures Extracted from the Earth. Upper Silesia and the Borderland), was published in 2005 by the Silesian Centre of Cultural Heritage in Katowice. It is the outcome of editorial cooperation supervised by Eugeniusz Tomczak and involving scientific institutes, museums, cultural institutions, and the collector Roman Czarnecki. A presentation of archaeological monuments and objects discovered in the present-day voivodeships of Silesia and Opole. The well-devised and logical arrangement. of the book starts with an Introduction by Jerzy Piekalski, in four versions: Polish, English, German and Czech, with the author discussing the fundamental concepts and most essential issues of archaeology. He also outlined the history of Silesia, emphasising the fact that this is a region of the permeation and stratification of assorted cultures. Finally, the reader is informed that the content of the album was based on the scientific accomplishments of Silesian archaeologists. The basic part of the album is composed of photographs of archaeological objects and monuments, accompanied by a scientific commentary which contains: a name, a description, dates, cultural affiliation and, in justified cases - the objective, remarks about the technology of execution, the history of extraction, together with the name of the researcher, and a brief depiction of the archaeological site, analogies, and place of storage. The photographs, together with a commentary and the name of the locality from which the monuments and object originate, have been arranged chronologically from the Palaeolithic Age to the Renaissance (sixteenth century). The lavish and high-quality illustrations has been selected extremely carefully, and the publishing house has guaranteed a superior poligraphic standard. The only shortcoming appears to be the absence of a scale in the presentation of the monuments, which makes it impossible to visually determine their size (the actual dimensions are listed in the commentaries). The publication has been outfitted with a selective bibliography. It also contains a map with marked localities in which the monuments presented in the album had been discovered, as well as their index with complete administrative data.

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BALTIC HERITAGE IN WESTERN BELARUS: NEW HISTORIC AND LINGUISTIC DATA ABOUT OBOLTSY (Baltiiskoe nasledie v vostochnoi Belarusi: novye istoricheskie i lingvisticheskie dannye ob Oboltsakh)

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Gurskaya J. A., Vaitkiavichus V.

Acta Baltico-Slavica

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2008

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vol. 32

9-30

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Historian J. Ochmanski was the first to introduce the statement about Baltic heritage in Oboltsy region (Tolochinski & Sennenski 'raion' of the Vitebsk region (Oblast)). He considered that the Oboltsy Baltic heritage is autochthonous by nature. A.P. Nepokupnyi considered that the Lithuanian occupation of Oboltsy is the most trustworthy as well as the occupation of other West Slavonic lands. The article presents and investigates the data of the complex investigations in 2006 the main aim of which is to prove the J. Ochmanski hypothesis as well as to find new data in the above mentioned region. Combination of field investigations together with the historic and linguistic archive files permitted the authors to find some new aspects of the Baltic-Slavonic relations on the territory of Western Belarus. ncient settlement situated on the left tributary of the river Obolyanka near Kleban village (its historic name is Old Oboltsy) became one of the most significant discoveries. By its appearance and analogies in the Vitebsk Podvine and the Orsha Podneprove the settlement can be attributed to the third quarter of the 1st millennium AD. The question of its earlier and late existence is still opened. 0,3 km. to the West of the settlement on the bank of the same Obolyanka tributary there is a place where the Catholic Oboletskii church was situated till the middle of the XX century. Due to archaeological data the cultural layer contains ceramics of the XIV-XVI centuries and overgrowth. This allows us to consider though with some hesitation that the Oboletskii court of Grand Dukeof Lithuania was situated there. Taking into consideration the fact that the Grand Duke Yagailo (Jagiello) as the founder of the Oboltsy Church in 1387 the remains of the first Catholic church can also be found here. It can be considered that in XIV-XVI centuries the Oboltsy administrative, political and cultural center in the upper stream of Obolyanka was founded on the place of the previously reinforced settlement that was the center of the tribal or perhaps even early state power. While investigating inter-confessional relations in Oboltsy it was discovered that interrelations between anthroponomy of the Baltic origin and the Catholic religion (that is typical for central part of Belarus) made significantly difficult to find the Baltic heritage there.In this connection the linguistic, chronological and geographic analyses of the anthroponomy were carried out. The family names of the Baltic origin found in Oboltsy region are the collection of different chronologic layers. The most ancient layer, identified by J. Ochmanski is the constant of anthroponomy fund. They were constant during four-five centuries and consolidated in the modern Belarus names as well as in the region toponymy. A part of the names is connected with the big clans and migration of their representatives in XVII-XVIII centuries from the eastern part of Belarus. The latest layer of the Lithuanian names is connected with the Lithuanian colonization movement in the XIX century on the territory of the western part of Vitebsk region. The strong concentration of the Baltic (Lithuanian) names in Oboltsy, Smoliany, Shupeny region fixed in XV-XVII centuries proves the constant process of the Baltic names distribution in this region.

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Zbiory „archeologiczne” Konstantego Świdzińskiego

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Ryszewska K.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

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2012

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issue 6

261-279

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These paper concerns the archaeological part of Konstanty Świdziński’s collection, which in mid-19th century constituted one of the richest private collections in Poland. Konstanty Świdziński (1793-1855), son of a Radom castellan Kajetan, took over the family estate after his father’s death in 1814. The profits from the estate, the Sulgostów demesne, was devoted chiefly to the purchase of exhibits for the collection: above all manuscripts and prints, then pictures and drawings, items of functional art, numismatic specimens and archaeological artefacts. In 1831-1832 Świdziński stayed in Cracow, and then in 1833-1855 in Ukraine, where he also devoted himself to the collecting passion, constantly increasing the collection, archaeological segment included. Świdziński’s collection, assembled by him in different stages of life were heavily dispersed and stored in various localities in all partitions, including Sulgostów, Cracow, Rogalin and in Paszkówka, Kyiv and Brusilov. Shortly before his death in 1855 he bequeathed his collection and the estate in the Kingdom of Poland to margrave Aleksander Wielopolski. The collection which was then brought to Sulgostów was catalogued in 1856. The “Inventory of the remainders after Konstanty Świdziński” entailed, among other things, the “Archaeological Collection” which comprised 248 items. These were mainly the products of handicraft, including candleholders, rosaries, medallion, lockets, cutlery, trays, snuffboxes, pipes, a clock, bell, mortar, cane, jewel cases, written material, seals, musical instruments, crockery, ornaments, elements of attire and horse-riding gear, militaria (including weapons and armour), crosses and Little Russian medallions, as well as sculptures. This was in line with the 19th-century notion of archaeology and archaeological artefacts, among which one would counted any memorabilia of the past, not necessarily a remote one at that, including flint and stone wares, urns, objects associated with religious rituals, weapons and armour, ornaments and valuables, coins, household items, paintings, sculptures. The collection’s purely archaeological artefacts, originating from prehistoric and historical times include stone and flint tools (arrowheads and spearheads, axes and hatchets), earthenware (urns), silver ornaments (e.g. earrings). Already after Świdziński’s death, twenty two exhibits from his collection found their way to the Exhibition of Antiquities and Monuments of Art organised in1858 inCracow. Following Wielopolski’s renouncement of the legacy, Konstanty Świdziński’s collection was incorporated into Krasiński family entail and, along with the remaining contents of the Krasiński Library, were in greater part destroyed by the Nazi invaders as part of the repressions after the collapse of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.

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SKARBY ZIEMI WYDARTE. GÓRNY ŚLĄSK I POGRANICZE Red. Eugeniusz Tomczak, Wyd. Śląskie Centrum Dziedzictwa Kulturowego w Katowicach, Katowice 2005

BALTIC HERITAGE IN WESTERN BELARUS: NEW HISTORIC AND LINGUISTIC DATA ABOUT OBOLTSY (Baltiiskoe nasledie v vostochnoi Belarusi: novye istoricheskie i lingvisticheskie dannye ob Oboltsakh)

Zbiory „archeologiczne” Konstantego Świdzińskiego