Odkrycie zaginionych wzorców miar z ratusza Głównego Miasta w Gdańsku
Discovery of Missing Measurement Standards from the Main Town Hall in Gdańsk

Summary/Abstract: In 2019, the Foundation for the Recovery of Lost Works of Art Latebra and the Biskupia Górka Association, in cooperation with the Our Gdańsk Association, carried out search work on Biskupia Górka in Gdańsk. Work under the archaeological supervision of Przemysław Garlicki led to the discovery of a monument erected in 1884 to the outstanding physician, astronomer and naturalist Nathaniel Mateusz Abraham Wolf. During the work, missing measurement standards were also recovered, which until 1945 were hung at the main entrance to the Main Town Hall in Gdańsk. The discovered measurement standards are an example of one of only a few preserved artefacts of this type in Poland. In the article the author provides a formal and stylistic description of the discovered measurement standards. Based also on archaeological, historical and iconographic sources, he attempts to trace the history of this extraordinary artefact.

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