The lost and forgotten Opava''s collection of Egyptian finds. The story of objects from digging conducted by famed Flinders Petrie
Abstract
The paper deals with the lost and forgotten Opava''s collection of Egyptian finds which the Museum of Applied Arts in Opava acquired shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. The set of Egyptian objects came from the excavation of the renowned English Egyptologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie.
In the course of the Second World War, these finds were lost or destroyed and the existence of Egyptian collection in Opava has been put out of mind; there have existed only scrappy references to its being. The collection was not included in the register of Egyptian objects in the area of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic.
Such situation had endured until recently when author started to follow up the questions of its form and destinies (especially circumstances of its acquisition and disappearance) in Czech and British archives.