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Fig. 88. Sculptures from Braak near Eutin. Afler H. Jankuhn, 1957, table 7.

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of her (Gieysztor* 1982, p. 198; Sztuka polska przedromańska i romańska, 1971, vol. 1, p. 315, vol. 2, p. 747; SSS, vol. 4, p. 243). Further examples come from Łubowo near Szczecinek (Stafiński, 1957), Małocin (Grzym-kowski, 1976), Żydowo near Sławno and Słupca near Szczecin (Gieysztor, 1982, p. 198). K. Jażdżewski (1936a) recorded the discovery of a four--faced stone statuę “as tali as a fourteen-years-old child,” which the owner of the field broke in pieces and sold as materiał for the construction of a road. Ali those finds can hardly be ąualified as monumental sculptures. This type can be, however, represented by the aforementioned statuę of “Pilgrim” from Łysieć.

Some information about statues may be also traced in late written sour-ces. Maciej Miechowita in his chronicie (1521, p. 24) follows Długosz’s story

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Fig. 89. Ślęża. “The maiden with a fish”. The archives of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

about the destruction of pagan statues in Poland, and claims that in his youth he saw three pagan idols broken into pieces next to the Holy Trinity church in Cracow. In the 19th c. Chęciny near Kielce had two sculptures called Baba (Old Woman) and Dziad (Old Man), now lost (Sokołowska, 1928, p. 131; Gloger, 1978, vol. 1, p. 88; cf. Reinfuss, 1989, p. 26-29). Some new finds of that type were reported (Głosik, 1986).

Ruthenia abounds in stone sculptures. They were found in the areas of Novgorod, Sebezh, Pskov and Akulinino (Sedov, 1981, p. 71; 1982, p. 264-265; Gurevich, 1954. An interesting two-faced statuę reaching 1.7 m was found near Yaryvka in Bukovina (Timoshchuk, 1976, p. 91-91). From the former Polish territory (now the western Ukrainę) we know the stone idol from the village Kałusz (Kalus), representing a man with a hora in his hand, as well as many other examples, some of which seem to belong to the Turkish-type “crones” (Gieysztor, 1982, p. 192-194; Vinokur, 1967, p. 139-141; 1970; 1972, p. 107-108). In 1939 a stone idol head was dis-covered near Słonim (Stabrowski, 1939), while in 1970 two other sculptures were found near Kobryn (Nikitina, 1971). I.S. Vinokur and P.V. Zabashta (1989, p. 66, 68) reported further finds from Kreminne, Yagniatin, Yur-kevtse and Shklov. In Łopuszna near Rohatyń there is a large sculpture,

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