Jeszcze o Konstantym Tyszkiewiczu w Hallstatt
More on Konstanty Tyszkiewicz in Hallstatt

Summary/Abstract: Nearly 40 years have passed since the time of writing an essay Konstantego hr Tyszkiewicza wykopaliska w Hallstatt by the author, in which he reminded an interesting episode from the life of this outstanding Polish-Lithuanian-Byelorussian archaeologist (5 II 1806-1 VII 1868). And so, in August 1858 on travelling Austria he arrived at the area of a famous site in Hallstatt (a salt mine and cemetery). He made friends with the head of mining industry Johann Georg Ramsauer (1797 – 1876) who conducted there excavations. He lent Konstanty Tyszkiewicz his miners and allowed him to dig up several graves what Tyszkiewicz did within three days. Tyszkiewicz praised the accuracy of Ramsauer`s research and perfection of his documentation, graves descriptions and their drawings and plans. He also admired resoluteness of this researcher who cared that Tyszkiewicz “did not claim any right to any of these things which had been excavated from the graves”. However, Tyszkiewicz did not leave without any loot.He wrote: “ I have prayed at Ramsauer merely [...] one pin, one poor snail-shaped clasp, the poorest of broken bracelets and several hobnails of tunic. Armour or various iron remains I brought to my collection more because they disregard the revealed iron”. Ramsauer and Tyszkiewicz thought the cemetery to be a Roman one and they did not appreciate its value as the one coming from the beginning of the Iron Age. Moreover, Ramsauer promised Tyszkiewicz sending a copy of the Album with graves drawings and pictures of things obtained from the graves. His Hallstatt adventure Tyszkiewicz described in a book “O kurhanach na Litwie i Rusi Zachodniej. Studium archeologiczne. (On barrows in Lithuania and West Russia. Archaeological study), Berlin 1868. When he was writing it, he did not got the Album from Ramsauer yet. In the present study, the author has given some thought whether artifacts brought by Tyszkiewicz to the family residence in Łohojsk preserved. There is an interesting trace in “Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Pologne”, fasc.3: 1936, by E. Bulanda and K. Bulas. So, in that time in the National Archaeological Museum there was a vessel, épichysis , which may come from “les tombes romaines au mont Saltzberg dans les Alpes” which - according to the author unmistakably indicates Hallstatt, whereas Bulanda and Bulas did not associate it and they gave their interpretation in brackets with a question mark: “ les Alpes de Salzburg?”. The same provenience was ascribed to the other vessel, that is to guttus. Probably, as classic archaeologists they connected it with a collection of more familiar to them Michał Tyszkiewicz (1826 – 1887), an outstanding collector, among others a benefactor of the Louvre.

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