Public Presentation of Non-european Cultures at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Part 1: An Analysis of the Collection of Vráz‘s Glass Slides in the Photographic Collections of the Náprstek Museum Jiřina Todorovová The way in which the Czech public in the late 19th and early 20th centuries learned about exotic lands was primarily dependent on travellers‘ abilities to present their findings in literature or to mediate their experiences directly, by means of lectures. From the 1890s onwards, lectures were…
The Crown of the Divine Child in the Meroitic Kingdom. A Typological Study Eric Spindler The crown of the divine child was one of the headdresses that transferred from Egypt to the Meroitic Kingdom. It was integrated in the Egyptian decoration program in the early Ptolemaic time. The first king of Meroe to use this crown in the decoration of the Lion Temple in Musawwarat es-Sufra was…
Iznik or Paris? Imitations of Ottoman Pottery in the Collection of the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen Jindřich Mleziva The article focuses on imitations of Asian craftsmanship, manufactured during the 19th century and found in the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen collection. he collection was created at the end of the 19th century. During that period the museum acquired both original Asian products and products…
Skeletal Material from Deir el-Medina in the Egyptological Collection of the Hrdlička Museum of Man in Prague Julie Tomsová , Zuzana Schierová The Egyptological collection of the Hrdlička Museum of Man, part of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, contains next to some ancient Egyptian artefacts mainly anthropological material, namely skeletal and mummified human remains. The article focuses on the skeletal material from…
„Father and Mother“: Tantric Couples in the Collection of the Náprstek Museum and the History of the Collection Description Helena Heroldová The first part of the study is devoted to the history of scholarly description of the Tibetan and Mongolian Collection in the Náprstek Museum, namely to the work of Lumír Jisl (1921–1969). The second part focuses on the iconography of Tantric couples on small votive Buddhist paintings from…
Shabti of King’s Mother Tasheretenese Pavel Onderka A shabti of Tasheretenese, mother of King Amasis of the late Twenty-Sixth Dynasty, was recently identified in the collections of the National Museum – Náprstek Museum, Prague. The shabti belongs to the class of larger shabtis of the Late Period inscribed with the Chapter Six of the Book of the Dead.…
The Use of Non-destructive Instrumental Methods in the Determination of Metal Objects from the Asian Collection of the Náprstek Museum Dagmar Pospíšilová, Michal Pech, Michael Kotyk The article presents a methodical survey of standard non-destructive analytical methods applied recently to metal objects in the museum. These methods have helped to classify and describe particular pieces in the museum’s collection of metal objects in a more complex ethnological, historical and…
Preliminary Report on the Tenth Excavation Season of the Archaeological Expedition to Wad Ben Naga Pavel Onderka, Vlastimil Vrtal, Alexander Gatzsche The tenth excavation season of the Archaeological Expedition to Wad Ben Naga focused on the rescue excavations around the rail track intersecting the archaeological site, in the course of which the kom H (of Frédéric Cailliaud) was explored. Another task of the season was the partial re-excavation…
