Modern replica of the Ancient Egyptian obelisk at the Park Maksimir in Zagreb. It was erected by financial support of the Zagreb bishop/arhcbishop Juraj Haulik in 1843 under the obvious influnce of Egyptomania in the architecture of the first half of the 19th century.

Juraj Haulik is a well known Ancient Egyptian antiquity collector who also donated one Ancient Egyptian mummy (AMZ E-666) to Narodni muzej (today Archaeological Museum in Zagreb).

Catalogue entry

Modern replica of the Ancient Egyptian obelisk
sculptor Joseph Käschmann
Park Maksimir, Zagreb
Egyptomania, Park Maksimir, Zagreb, 1843
stone
Juraj Haulik

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. 357-358, fig. 6.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. Staroegipatska civilizacija, sv. II: Uvod u egiptološke studije. Zagreb, 2017. 125, fig. 130.