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Published by The Museum Tusculanum Press at the University of Copenhagen, for The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, 2006
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. But for some unobtrusive wear to the spine bottom of the printed paper dust wrapper, a fine-looking, structurally exemplar of CNI Publications 29: The Carlsberg Papyri (6). Handsomely bound in blue cloth over boards, Imperial octavor in format, with g…ilt lettering to spine. From the publisher's blurb, "This volume contains the edition of a new manuscript with Petese Stories from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the period around 100 AD. The Petese Stories is a compilation of seventy stories about the virtues and vices of women. The numerous stories were compiled on the orders of the prophet Petese of Heliopolis that they may serve as a literary testament by which he would be remembered. Petese was, according to literary tradition, Plato's Egyptian instructor in astrology. The composition seems to have been modeled on the fundamental Myth of the Sun's Eye. The overall structural pattern of the text is very similar to the Arabian Nights; a frame story forms the introduction as well as the fabric into which the long series of shorter tales are woven. Among the stories preserved in the new manuscript one is particularly remarkable in that it is known from a translation by Herodotus, the so-called Pheros Story (Book II, chap. 111)." xiv [2], 1-210 pp. and then followed by a long range of full-color plates, printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
