Shabtis: An Introduction to the History of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes with a Catalogue of the Collection of Shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, I-III. [THREE VOLUMES]. [AND:] Privately published Addenda et Corrigenda.

Schneider, Hans Diederik.

Verlag: Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, 1977

Beschreibung

Three volumes. Text Volumes I-II: Royal octavo. Pp. xxv, 367; 276, plus 56 plates of Hieroglyphic texts. With a full-page map to each volume. Plate Volume: Quarto. Contains 79 photographic plates with numerous images to each; 2 charts; 3 folding plates of text-examples; 23 line-drawn plates with numerous images to each. Uniformly bound in the original publisher's illustrated stiff wrappers, bit discoloured, a corner creased; small, unobtrusive exlib ticket (university library) inside each cover. In a very good condition with fine interiors. ~ FIRST EDITION. Collections of the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, Volume II. Schneider's "Shabtis" was originally presented as a doctoral dissertation to the University of Ghent. It directly became a classic, most authoritative study on the subject. "Fundamental is the study by Hans Schneider. Apart from substantial historical and religio-historical research, he developed a typology in order to make elaborate and repetitive descriptions of the abundant material superfluous. He submitted the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden to this procedure and made it manageable by means of key pages with outlines of the various types." - Henk Milde, UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. [ADDED:] As it were, Schneider's work was not free from errors which remained uncorrected as no new edition was ever published. Many a scholar took these errors at face value and some confusion and discussion arose. In a privately compiled, typed and circulated among few scholars, a 2-page "Addenda et Corrigenda" lists no less than 46 points of errors or incompleteness, some of them rather severe, almost all in the two text volumes. A copy of this rare list is herewith enclosed. L-3. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9999_05362

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Titel: Shabtis: An Introduction to the History of ...

Verlag: Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

Erscheinungsdatum: 1977

Einband: Soft cover

Auflage: 1st Edition