Naslov
The Ancient Egyptian Collections in Croatia and the Project Croato-Aegyptica Electronica

Autori
Tomorad, Mladen

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Collections at Risk – New Challenges in a New Environment

Urednik/ci
Derricks, Claire

Izdavač
Lockwood Press

Grad
Atlanta (GA)

Godina
2017

Raspon stranica
237-268

ISBN
978-1-937040-60-4

Ključne riječi
Egyptian collections, Croatia, project Croato-Aegyptica Electronica

Sažetak
Approximately 5000 Egyptian artifacts (dated until the Arab conquest in 642 AD) are housed in Croatia. Most of these can be found in museums but various objects are also housed in private collections. Most of the artifacts are smaller objects such as scarabs, amulets, shabtis, tablets made of dissimilar materials, jewelry, fertility symbols, and statuettes of deities as well as footwear, various vessels and canopic jars, animal images, and male and female statues. Within this vast number of objects, larger groups can be identified, like the statues of gods made of varied materials (primarily Osiris and Isis), various wooden and stone stelae with the inscriptions and paintings of mostly sepulchral character, inscriptions on papyrus and linen, Books of Dead. The sarcophagi for the burial of human and animal remains of different material, mummies and mummy wrappings form a group. Thirteen completely or fragmentary preserved sphinxes from the Diocletian’s palace in Split are also worth mentioning. The most important collections are housed in the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, the Archaeological Museum in Split, the Archaeological Museum in Zadar, the Archaeological Museum of Istria in Pula, the Archaeological Museum in Dubrovnik, the Museum of Slavonia in Osijek, the Museum of Ante Topić Mimara in Zagreb. Smaller collections can be found in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, and in the regional and town museums across Croatia (the Museum of the City of Varaždin, the Franciscan monastery in Sinj, the St. Euphemia monastery in Kampor on the island of Rab, etc.). I this paper I will present history of our collections, a small presentation of each collection, and will give brief introduction of Croato-Aegyptica database which is part of Egyptological project Croato-Aegyptica Electronica.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Arheologija

POVEZANOST RADA