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The Inscriptions of Sinai. Part I: Introduction and Plates.
Published by The Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1917
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. [3], 19 pp, +86 plates, cloth backed boards, rubbed and soiled with light damp-stains at lower edges, spine repaired, small stamp on front fly leaf, copy clean inside. ?One of the most important archaeological studies publications issued in England during recent years is that of the inscriptions of Sinai published by Egypt Exploration Fund. The book is a corpus of all known hieroglyphic and hieratic inscriptions in the Peninsula, both still extant and now destroyed, based chiefly upon the copies made by the Fund?s expedition in 1904, under Professor Petrie, and on a collection of squeezes, made many years ago, now in the British Museum. The work then is a publication of the labours of the Fund?s archaeologist plus a great amount of older and hitherto unpublished material. Its importance for the study of Egyptian epigraphy can hardly be overestimated. Several years ago an unparalleled outrage was committed by some British engineers sent out to Sinai by a commercial company to prospect for metals. They destroyed one of the oldest and finest inscriptions with pick and hammer. The publication of the remainders becomes an urgent necessity in view of possible repetitions of such acts of ignorant barbarity.? The Journal of Hellenic Studies / Volume 40 / Issue 02 / January 1920, pp 229-230. #32936.
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The Inscriptions of Sinai. Part I, Introduction and Plates (1952); Part II, Translations and Commentary (1955). 2-vol. set (Complete)
Published by Egypt Exploration Society / Geoffrey Cumberlege, London, 1955
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: vg. Folio (Part I: 17 3/4 x 14 1/4" and Part II: 12 3/4 X 10 1/4"). Part I: [4], 22, [2]pp (Text), xcvi (96) (i.e. 104) leaves (Plates); Part II: xi, [1], 242pp. Contemporary full burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spines and front covers. The first part of this work was originally published in 1917, and, together with its second part published 38 years later, this two-volume set is the complete Corpus of Egyptian records from Sinai, copied during the 1904-05 archaeological expedition. It contains the introduction to the work, as well as a series of tables which make it possible to see at a glance whict texts are new, and in what books the remainder have been published. They also indicate the exact provenance; the nature of the monuments in question; and, finally, their chronological order and distribution. Last but not least, this volume contains the entire set of 96 numbered plates (i.e 104, as there is a plate XXIa, XXVa, XXXIIIa, XXXVa, XLIIa, XLIVa, LIIIa, LXVa). Lower front corner slightly bumped (not affecting pages). Minor shelf wear. Ex-library copies with sticker at tails of spine, bookplate on inside of each front cover and pocket on inside of each back cover. Bindings in overall good+ to very good, interior in very good condition. Second edition (Part I) First edition (Part II).
