A Phantom Reappeared: Photographs of Tewodros' Silver Gilded Crown from Emperor Tewodros' Magdala Treasures.

This report provides three photographs of a silver gilded crown obtained after the pillage ofMagdala, the mountain fortress ofthe Abyssinian Emperor Tewodros II, by soldiers ofthe English Napier expedition in 1868. While the odyssey of this crown from Magdala to Addis Ababa via Berlin and London could be reconstructed previously (Gaehtgens 2018/19), no pictorial evidence of it could be presented, because two photographs taken in Berlin in 1869 appeared to have been lost. These two as well as a third photograph were since then successfully recovered. They are made available here for an analysis of artistic features, which might help to elucidate the crown's pre-Magdala origin and provenance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]