Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023

Archaeological Evidence of Medieval Metallurgical Activities in Prague’s Clementinum – Production and Processing of Bronze, Brass and Silver

Jan Zavřel, Jan Havrda, Karel Malý, Romana Kočárová

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 2-30 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2023.2.01  

The article focuses on documentation of medieval production technologies, especially on the metallurgy of precious and non-ferrous metals or their alloys (silver, bronze and brass). Geochemical analysis was carried out using the EDS-SEM method. Under focus are furnaces and other finds from the Clementinum area near the western edge of Prague’s Old Town; reviewed are also the small finds discovered in the vicinity. The local finds of production features (furnaces) or small remains after their destruction (fragments from the walls of the furnaces) and also artefacts belonging to other types of archaeometallurgical finds (lumps and drops of non-ferrous...

Counter-Reformation Tiled Stove from the Farmstead in Nebřenice (Prague-East district)
Der Gegenreformations-Kachelofen aus dem Wirtschaftshof in Nebřenice (Bez. Prag-Ost)

Jaromír Žegklitz

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 31-51 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2023.2.02  

During the excavations by the Archaia Prague company in the premises of the castle in Nebřenice, redeposited remains of a tiled stove were revealed, related to the earliest phase of the construction of the farmstead around the turn of the second quarter of the 17th century. The reliefs of preserved tiles indicate consciously conceived counter-reformation iconographic meaning of the stove. This presumption corresponds to the owner and most likely purchaser of the stove, Ondřej Hannewald from Eckersdorf, a member of the Prague imperial court and the secret council of emperors Rudolf II and Matthias, who was a convinced Catholic hated by the estate opposition.

Two Architectural Elements from the area of the Church of Saints Philip and James in the Old Town of Prague : The Use of Post-Classical Wedge Shaped Ribs in Bohemia
Zwei Architekturglieder aus der Kirche der hl. Philipp und Jakob in der Prager Altstadt : Zur Geltendmachung der nachklassischen Keilrippen in Böhmen

Miroslav Kovář, Petr Starec

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 52-65 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2023.2.03  

The paper deals with two architectural elements found in a secondary position during the excavation of a utility tunnel trench on Betlémské Square in Prague. The first is an opuka rectilinear moulding with a shallow groove on the outer face and a funnel-shape on the inner face. The second is a vault rib of an elongated wedge profile with a very shallow groove on one side, almost imperceptible on the opposite side. Distribution of both elements in Bohemia is reviewed as well as the period of their use mainly in the first half of the 14th century. Both fragments most likely document the Gothic reconstruction of Sts. Philip and James Romanesque church,...

Forgotten glass from Prague in the collections of the Museum of decorative arts in Prague

Hedvika Sedláčková, Dana Rohanová

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 66-95 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2023.2.04  

In 1940 and 1941 The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague bought eight sets of glass from Prague buildings without further context of their discovery. The assemblages comprise of Gothic, late Gothic and Renaissance glass. Most represented is Renaissance glass, which comes from one large and four smaller sets. These collections enlarge the number of sites with glass finds in the Malá Strana and Old and New Towns of Prague, and present types of glass in the late Gothic style hitherto almost unknown from the Prague environment. Chemical analyses performed by the SEM/EDS method revealed not only the variability of the composition in all periods, but also...

Jew’s harp – a subtle witness of musical culture and daily life in the middle ages and early modern times in archaeological finds

Tomasz Cymbalak

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 96-118 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2023.2.05  

Jew’s harp – a small metal musical instrument widely used in Europe since the High Middle Ages – has become an interesting topic for Western European researchers in recent decades. This article brings the first presentation of Jew’s harp from archaeological excavations in Prague. The 4 pieces of this Prague small collection were subjected to micro-analysis by the EDS-SEM method. Also other archaeological finds of Jew’s harp from the lands of the Bohemian Crown are presented – 2 pieces from Moravia and 7 pieces from Lower Silesia. The author introduces the interpretation of this small object as a musical instrument...

All the more to the tombstone of St. Gunther in Břevnov Monastery
Nochmals zur Grabplatte hl. Günthers im Stift Břevnov

Michal Cihla, Andrea Holasová, Michal Tryml

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 119-131 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2023.2.06  

St. Gunther (German: Gunther or Günther) belongs to the saints associated with the beginnings of monastic communities in Bavaria and the Bohemian Lands. There is plenty of written evidence about his activities and hermit life in the Šumava forests in the 1030s and 1040s. Although his cult was not one of the most widespread in the Bohemian Lands, he entered the historical cognisance especially thanks to his final resting place in the Břevnov monastery. His grave is commemorated by an ancient tombstone discovered during excavations in the 1st half od the 18th century, the age and stylistic classification of which have been the subject of long-standing...

Ničení soch

Helena Čižinská

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 132-153  

Stavebněhistorické a operativní průzkumy a dokumentace provedené NPÚ v Praze v roce 2022

Ladislav Bartoš, Kateřina Knotová, Miroslav Kovář, Lenka Kovářová, Anna Piskáčková, Matouš Semerád, Jana Sodomková

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 154-165  

Král Čechů a kníže Olomoučanů (zpráva o nové knize)

Pavel Šlézar

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 166-167  

Podlipnické kostely : Sborník z konference

Filip Srovnal

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023, 168  

Objev v areálu bývalé johanitské komendy v Praze (čp. 490/III, Hrzánský palác)

Miroslav Kovář, Ladislav Bartoš, Kateřina Knotová

Staletá Praha 39, 2/2023