Pottery Lamps from the Hellmuth Collection of Egyptian Antiquities
Jiří Honzl
The Náprstek Museum houses a small collection of fourteen pottery lamps originating from Egypt which belonged to Vladimír Hellmuth-Brauner (1910–1982) and Marta Hellmuthová (1917–1988), the former of whom served as the Czechoslovak embassy at Cairo. The collection included the so-called ‘echinus…