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OBITUARIES

guidance of Prof. Lech Krzyzaniak and defended in 1994, was from this field: The decoration of painted
vessels with figural representations from the Late Predynastic period in Egypt.
Despite interests which departedfarfrom the New Kingdom in Egypt, her involvement with the work
for the Tuthmosis III Temple mission at Deir el-Bahari fruited in a successful reconstruction of the
decoration of a number of rooms. These achievements were presented in relevant publications.
A member of the staff of the National Museum in Warsaw (from 1992 in the Registry andfrom 1995
in the Ancient Art Collection, becoming a keeper of the collection in 2003), she was actively involved in
museum work. Her chief interest were the stone and clay vessels, foremost from the pre-WWII Franco-
Polish excavations at Edfu. She was in the process — interrupted alas! — ofpreparing a corpus of these
vessels, conducting for this purpose meticulous studies of the archives in Warsaw and Cairo.
From 2004 she was active in the proceedings of ICOM’s International Committee for Egyptology
(CIPEG) as secretary and board member She coorganized CIPEG’s Warsaw conference in 2003. Were it
not for her failing health, she would have also been part of the team organizing the Tempeltagung
Egyptological conference in the National Museum in Warsaw in the summer of2008. As it was, she took
an interest in the first preparations.
Her scholarly achievement includes ten articles on Pre- and Early Dynastic Egypt, eight articles
commenting upon various issues connected with the Temple of Tuthmosis III at Deir el-Bahari, six reviews,
andfour books on Egypt translated perfectly into Polish. So little and yet so much...
Monika Dolinska

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