Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (10.1998(1999))

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mention exceptional skill. Aided only by a small group of assistants and with just the basic techni-
cal facilities, he concluded a task that can be compared only with the saving of the Abu Simbel
temples. Over 120 painted compositions from Faras were thus saved, including such excellent and
monumental pieces as the Three Youths in Fiery Furnace, Nativity, and the masterpiece of master-
pieces - St. Anne. Gazy also helped out with W. Y. Adams' work at Meinarti, protecting and tak-
ing down the wall paintings discovered there. He then spent three years, between 1966 and 1969,
in the National Museum in Khartum, working together with Sudanese colleagues on the conservation
of the Faras paintings in preparation for the opening of a permanent exhibition of Nubian painting
in 1972. Upon returning home in 1969, he worked at the National Museum in Warsaw, continu-
ing until 1974 a project begun by Dr. Hanna Jgdrzejewska to preserve the Faras paintings which
had been brought to Poland.
His accomplishments in Sudan gained him international acclaim. He was awarded the Sudanese
Order of Merit for his work.
In the mid-seventies, Gazy returned to his favorite occupation - carving in stone. He remained
associated with the Polish Center of Archaeology, completing the conservation of the monumental stat-
ue of Athena and the lion with antelope discovered by the Polish expedition in the temple of Allat in
Palmyra, Syria.
Wlodzimierz Godlewski

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