Plankoff Alexandre (5 results)

Excellent copy. Only slight wear to cover. Text block in near new condition.

Softcover. Color-illustrated wraps with white lettering. 149 pp. + 67 bw plates. Contains the first translation of the hieroglyphic text inscribed on the four shrines that enclosed the tomb of King Tut. They include rituals and devotional inscriptions and fragments of sacred books. VG with unbroken spine but with museum ex-lib. sticker and marks.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 149 pages with 67 b&w illustrations. This is 2nd volume in a series of works on Egyptian religious texts. Contents includes Amon-Re, god of Thebes, Theology of Aton, Maat, Goddess of truth, Funerary ceremonies, Mummification, The viscera, The heart, Nut, the coffin, The book of the dead, The watery abyss, Nun, Book of the divine cow. Contains the first translation of the hieroglyphic text inscribed on the four shrines that enclosed the tomb of King Tut, including rituals and devotional inscriptions and fragments of sacred books. Keywords: Amon-Re, God of Thebes, Theology of Aton, Maat, Goddess of truth, Funerary ceremonies, Mummification, Viscera, Heart, Nut, The coffin, The book of the dead, The watery abyss, Nun, Book, Divine cow. Translation, Hieroglyphic, Text, Inscribed, Four, Shrines, Tomb, King Tu.

Condition: Good. The Shrines of Tut-Ankk-Amon.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. 2 volumes, I: Texts. II. 30 folding plates. Tall 4to, brown cloth-backed cream cloth, brown cloth slipcase (spotted and rubbed). New York: Pantheon, (1957). A near fine set in a very good box. Bollingen Series XL 3.