Albert M Lythgoe Ed (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good to very good condition. First edition. 1/1000. Folio. xxii, 132pp., 35 plates, three of them and frontispiece o restored anthropoid coffin, chromolithographs. Original half leather over textured brown, paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Gilt top edge. Publication of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. Frontispiece chromolithograph; printed tissue guards. First of the museum publications relating to its excavations in Egypt. "The tomb described in this volume was found during the winter of 1906-7, in the course of our first season's work at Lisht. The tomb is published as a unit in itself, and there will be no discussion in the present volume of its relation either to the other tombs in the cemetery, or to the mastaba within the enclosure walls of which it was situated." (Introduction). Little is known about this woman who lived at the end of the 12th Dynasty. In her undisturbed tomb records were found indicating a second name for her, Zathapy (daughter of Apis, a son of Hathor, a primary deity in the pantheon of ancient Egypt), bearing the common title "Lady of the House." Her mummified body was placed in a set of three coffins. The volume is beautifully illustrated with numerous in-text drawings and thirty-five plates rendered lithographically, three of them in color. Contains list of illustrations and plates at front, appendix with notes on the mummy, indices of names of objects from the painted coffins, authorities cited and general index at end of text. Block uncut at bottom and foredge. Binding with light wear along edges, some scuffing of leather at head, tail and joints of spine. Some sunning, e.g. gilt top edge. Book plate on inside front cover. Light smudging of endpapers.