Medinet Habu Graffiti: Facsimiles
Edgerton, William F. (Ed.)
From ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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From ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 04 February 2000
About this Item
Folio (12 1/4 x 16"). XI, [1], 6pp (Text), [4]pp (Figures), 103 leaves (Plates). Original quarter brown over orange cloth, with gold lettering to spine. "The ancient texts and pictures reproduced in this volume were found in modern times at Medinet Habu, but possess no other kind of unity. A few of them probably originated elsewhere: Nos. 22, 25, and 26 may well have been written by workmen of Ramses III in the quarry at Gebel Silsilah, while the ultimate provenience of Nos. 103, 212, and 338 is quite unknown. Chronologically, the interval between the earliest and the latest texts in the volume is probably as great as that from the time of Christ to the present; culturally, it spans one of the sharpest breaks which have ever cut the history of any country - the collapse of Egyptian paganism and the triumph of Christianity. In language and in purport the divergences are equally conspicuous." (From the Publishers). The graffiti were discovered in the following locations: The Great Temple of Ramses III; The Treasury; The Slaughterhouse and the room behind it; Front of the eastern fortified gate; Roof of the Treasury; Roof of the Second Court; The Small Temple and adjacent structures; Room R of the Small Temple, east wall; Room R of the Small Temple, west wall; Room S of the Small Temple, east wall; Room S of the Small Temple, west wall; Room S of the Small Temple, south wall. Ex-library copy, with sticker at tail of spine and upper margin of front cover, and bookplate on inside of front board. Upper margin of front cover slightly soiled. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. Seller Inventory # 40234
Bibliographic Details
Title: Medinet Habu Graffiti: Facsimiles
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Publication Date: 1937
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: vg
Edition: First edition.
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