Anna Sadurska (1921-2004)

Abstract

S h e died in March, aware of the coming end, full of dignity, wisdom and courage. Surrounded only by a few of her nearest relatives, avoiding at this hardest hour the compassion and sadness of friends, former colleagues from work, once her students. A professor with doctoral and habilitation degrees, Classical archaeologist and philologist: an eminent scholar, meritorious instructor and teacher, a wonderful human being. "Mother" of Polish Classical archaeology, of research on the reception of "archaeological" Antiquity in Poland, world renowned expert on Palmyra and a scholar of Roman iconography.