Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009

New data concerning the settlement in the backyard of Týnský court in the Old Town square in Prague

Jaroslav Podliska

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 2-15 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2009.2.01  

This presentation concerns the results of a rescue excavation of a house plot in the centre of The Old Town of Prague in 2006. In the backyard of a late 19th century tenement house, on a site neighbouring the Old Town square and Ungelt, a unique example of the settlement stratigraphy, dated to the earliest early medieval settlement phase from the 11th to the onset of the 13th century, was preserved. Both are key sites concerning the settlement of the historic centre on the right hand river bank. The excavated features are dominated by numerous negative features representing the original timber buildings, which were replaced in the early 13th century...

Dating and composition of the Vyšehrad type Romanesque floor tiles

Jarmila Čiháková

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 16-25 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2009.2.02  

An attempt is made to evaluate the oldest terracotta relief tiled floors in Bohemia - their chronology, iconography and composition technology. Chronology of the Vyšehrad type of tiles is currently based on two conceptions: it was produced either in the end of the 11th century or in the period around the year 1130. After critical analysis of those published finds, which have a high degree of potentially accurate dating, the earlier date is considered more probable. The newly recognised composition principle of the eponymous tiled floor, found in the 19th century in the basilica of St. Lawrence at Vyšehrad in Prague, was based on a different idea than...

The Magdalenian and Dominican monasteries of St. Mary Magdalene in Malá Strana, Prague (An archaeological contribution to understanding their structural form)

Jan Havrda, Michal Tryml

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 26-46 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2009.2.03  

An extensive archaeological excavation during 2003-2005 enabled a building development analysis of the medieval church of St. Mary Magdalene, which was formerly integrated in a gothic Magdalenian monastery at Malá Strana. Later modifications of the church and the monastery between the 14th to 17th centuries were revealed. They culminated, in the 17th century, in a complete reconstruction for the use of a Dominican monastery, which existed on the same site between 1604-1784. The discovery of Romanesque structural remains predating the origins of the church opened the question of its predecessor. The exposed walling of the polygonal gothic east end of...

Prague Romanesque houses after seven years

Zdeněk Dragoun

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 47-53 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2009.2.04  

The presentation of new discoveries of Romanesque residential architectural remains in Prague over the past seven years since the publication of the Prague Romanesque houses catalogue. In some cases this short review of the new material confirms some of the previously presumed conclusions (mainly the existence of homesteads with Romanesque enclosure walls at Malá Strana and possibly also in The Old Town) and in other cases it brings completely new information, such as existence of a planned Romanesque residential area on the site of the future New Town of Prague, with previously unknown building features such as a staircase portative wall and a doubled...

The Jewish cemetery in Vladislavská street

Michaela Selmi Wallisová

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 54-65 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2009.2.05  

A contribution to the burial rite of Prague Jewish minority during the middle ages, based upon a rescue excavation in modern Vladislavova street. The excavation revealed part of the former cemetery (the so called Jewish garden) with graves from 1274-1478. From the total number of 401 exposed graves some were scientifically documented. Apart from spatial analysis, information was also gained concerning burial practises, from which some have no analogies in European literature. Questions addressed by the excavation of this cemetery are of relevance to regions beyond Bohemia.

The water supply of a post medieval citizen's house in Malá Strana, Prague

Tomasz Cymbalak, Josef Řehák ml.

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 66-80 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2009.2.06  

A detailed analysis of one of the situations discovered during the rescue excavation in 2006-2008 on a house plot in the centre of Malá Strana in Prague. A post medieval system was revealed, which with its extent and construction features illustrates building development of the house as well as changes in water management of the settlement area. The exposed system of a water adit connected with a deep well had a complicated development, including a use of an earlier cistern within the house. The discovery is documented by specialists from several fields (archaeology, geology, dendrochronology, speleology) and is an example of building and sanitary...

Clay and porcelain pipes from Prague Lesser Town

Martin Vyšohlíd

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 81-87 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2009.2.07  

The analysis of 44 fragments of ceramic and porcelain tobacco pipes from two extensive archaeological excavations in the area of Malá Strana. According to their form, decoration, and production style the pipes are placed in firmly defined production areas, as well as within the wider European pipe production context of the 17th-20th century.

Find of Early Gothic architectural remains at no. 433/I in Prague-Old Town, Michalská 14 (preliminary report)

Miroslav Kovář, Martina Hrabová

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 88-92 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2009.2.08  

The preliminary evaluation of two architectonic pieces, a richly moulded early Gothic cantilever-like fragment (f.e. a corbel stone) and another small fragment. The fragments are decorated by a diamond motif and can be dated to the mid or slightly earlier 13th century. They probably belonged to house furnishings and as such give evidence for the quality of the vernacular early Gothic architecture at The Old Town of Prague.

Pražský sborník historický 8-35. Kronika "Archeologický výzkum v Praze v letech ..." - část 1 - Pražská městská památková rezervace (PPR) - bibliography (102-118), index of places (119-131)

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 102-131  

The cemetery of the church of St. John in Obora in Šporkova street (no. 322/III), Malá Strana, Prague

Martin Omelka

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 93-101 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2009.2.09  

A brief review of the current results from research at a former cemetery area and the church of St. John in Obora covering iconography, history, building history and the archaeology of the site. The study is supplemented by a general overview of Post medieval grave furnishings from the 2002 and 2004 excavation seasons.

Aktuality

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, 132-140  

Podíl odborných pracovníku NPÚ Praha na populární literatuře o pražských památkách

Alexandra Křížová

Staletá Praha 25, 2/2009, III