Database of the Nubian Collection in the Náprstek Museum
Rock Inscriptions from Naga el-Girgawi

Following its participation in the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Lower Nubia, the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague, received a share of finds made during the excavations.

These artefacts currently form part of the collections of the National Museum – Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures.

A set of several rock inscriptions removed from the area of Naga el-Girgawi, located a few kilometres downstream from Korosko, was published by Zbyněk Žaba in his book titled The Rock Inscriptions of Lower Nubia. (Czechoslovak Concession) in 1974. However, this publication is lacking, due to objective reasons, a proper correlation with the Náprstek Museum‘s inventory. The aim of this database is to supplement the original publication in this regard, as well as to provide further detailed documentation of the pieces. The set of rock inscriptions consists of six genuine pieces and thirteen gypsum casts made from latex imprints taken by the expedition while documenting the Inscriptions.

Bibliography: INVENTORY OF ROCK INSCRIPTIONS FROM NAGA EL-GIRGAWI IN THE NÁPRSTEK MUSEUM