CROATO-AEGYPTICA

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Family tomb of the family Grubišić in a shape of a pyramid

Family tomb of the family Grubišić in a shape of a pyramid
In the middle of the 20th century near Cascade at the Zagreb cemetary Mirogoj a tomb of family Grubišić was built. It was made in a shape of Ancient Egyptian pyramid with the entrance in a shape of temple pylons with pillars made in Egyptian style.

The exact details when it was built it was impossible to find at the archive of Mirogoj cemetary. It could be even built at the end of the 19th century.

Catalogue entry

Family tomb of the family Grubišić in a shape of a pyramid
Cemetary Mirogoj, Zagreb
Egyptomania, Mirogoj, Zagreb, 2nd half of the 19th-1950's
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Resources

  • Tomorad, Mladen. „Aegyptiaca and various forms of Egyptomania in Croatia“. U: Guilhou, Nadine (ur.). Liber Amicorum – Speculum Siderum: Nut Astrophoros – Paper presented to Alicia Maravelia. Oxford, 2016: 349-364. 358-359, fig. 8.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. Staroegipatska civilizacija, sv. II: Uvod u egiptološke studije. Zagreb, 2017. 130, fig. 142.