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 (ATLAS IN REPLICA)]. [AND:] Privately published Addenda et Corrigenda.

Schneider, Hans Diederik.

Published by Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, 1977

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Three volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. xxv, 367; 276, plus 56 plates of Hieroglyphic texts. With a full-page map to each volume. [AND:] Atlas in REPLICA: Quarto. Contains 79 photographic plates with numerous images to each; 2 charts; 3 plates of text-examples; 23 line-drawn plates with numerous images to each. The two text volumes are in the original illustrated stiff wrappers, bit age toned, one bottom corner dog-eared. In a very good condition, crisp interiors. The Atlas, a privately produced replica of very fine quality, is brand new hardcover. ~ FIRST EDITION. Collections of the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, II. [NOTE:] The Plate Volume is a REPLICA. Professionally photographed from the original in a very high resolution and privately produced as a very handsome hardcover book. It is printed throughout on fine 200g acid free, glossy paper which enhances contrast and resolution. The quality is excellent, not even the tiniest detail is lost. 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. _O-3.

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• Title: 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 (ATLAS IN REPLICA)]. [AND:] Privately published Addenda et Corrigenda.
• Publisher: Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
• Publication Date: 1977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology: Ancient Egypt, Egyptology