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Modern replica of the Ancient Egyptian obelisk at the entrance of the Mirogoj cemetary in Zagreb. It was erected by the architect Herman Bollé during the building of Cascades in the period between 1883 and 1914.

Obelisk is built under the obvious influnce of Egyptomania in the architecture of the second half of the 19th century.

Catalogue entry

Modern replica of the Ancient Egyptian obelisk
Cemetary Mirogoj, Zagreb
Egyptomania, Mirogoj, Zagreb
Herman Bollé, 1883-1914
stone

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. 357.
Tomorad, Mladen. Staroegipatska civilizacija, sv. II: Uvod u egiptološke studije. Zagreb, 2017. 125, fig. 131.