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…

This article revisits and expands upon Břetislav Vachala’s 1981 study of a wooden Osiris-shaped papyrus sheath from the collections of the Náprstek Museum. It incorporates newly discovered information regarding the object’s provenance and provenience. The object has been dated to the Twenty-first to…

The article is a contribution to the still understudied topic of Nepalese folk jewellery. For this purpose, a set of seven pieces of Nepalese folk jewellery from the collection of the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures in Prague was processed. These include two necklaces…

This study examines two rare indigenous North American pipes from the Náprstek Museum in Prague, donated by the Baron of Senftenberg prior to 1862. The first, pipe NpM Inv. No. 21.168, is a flat-stemmed, quill-decorated catlinite pipe attributed to the Ioway or Chiwere-speaking tribes and likely…

This report presents an analysis of archaeological and paleoenvironmental remains recovered from site SP 07 in the eastern Sabaloka region of Sudan. The recovered archaeological artefacts suggest settlement during both the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. Analysis of the faunal assemblage reveals a…

In 1842, the Bohemian nobleman Josef Xaver Count Wratislaw von Mitrowitz carved a visitor’s graffito on a column in the rear part of the Ramesseum. The graffito, numbered RDK 1601, gives the family name ‘Wratislaw’ and the year of the visit ‘1842’ and relates to his visit to the funerary temple on 2…