Records of the Past, Vol. 12: Being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Birch, Samuel

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ISBN 10: 1440060711 ISBN 13: 9781440060717

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016

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Excerpt from Records of the Past, Vol. 12: Being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments

The cover was found broken by Belzoni, but trans lations are here given of what remains, as figured by Bonomi, on plates 18 and 19. Those which cover the interior side of the lid belong in part to the Book of the Dead, but are incomplete. Only a small portion of the upper side of the lid now remains, figured on the same plates. On the bottom of the sarcophagus is engraved a large figure of the goddess Neith (plates 16 and I her arms hanging down, and her body wrapped round with folding wings in the form of a tight-fitting dress.

The figure is surrounded with prayers and chapters from the Book of the Dead.

In the Appendix M. Lefebure has given the version of the Book of Hades from the Tombs of Seti I.

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Assyrian andE gyptian texts. Those which here appear are equal in interest to the others which have gone before, but many that have been discovered have not found a place in the present work, and necessitate the pro duction of a new series, which might be undertaken if the idea was favourably entertained by the trans lators. It has been already pointed out the great benefit which the RECORDS OF THE PAST have conferred on the advance of the researches into ancient Oriental mythology and literature, by laying before the general reader results obtained by the labours of all the leading students into the philology and inscriptions of the greatest Eastern nations of antiquity.
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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1440060711
• ISBN 13: 9781440060717
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 174