DAS TOTENBUCH DES SCHREIBERS ANI.

Quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide], tan cloth in a dust wrapper. There are 2 small dents in the rear cover with corresponding dents in the rear panel of the dust jacket. There is also some minor rubbing to the rear panel of the jacket. 138 pages. 32 full-page color illustrations & 39 textual illustrations in black & white. The book is slightly cocked. Very good. The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript with cursive hieroglyphics and color illustrations created around 1250 BC, in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Egyptians compiled an individualized book for certain people upon their death, called the Book of Going Forth by Day, now commonly known as the Book of the Dead, containing declarations and spells to help the deceased in their afterlife. This papyrus of the Theban scribe Ani was stolen from an Egyptian government storeroom in 1888 by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge for the British Museum's collection. The color illustrations in the book are reproduced from the papyrus in the museum.The text is in German. Dust jacket present.

Product Info

Publisher: Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck u. Verlaganstalt, (1987).

Year: (1987).

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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