Mythological papyri; texts and plates
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TextSeries: (Bollingen series: 40, 3)NY Pantheon c1957Description: xvii, 221p.; illus.; bibliog. notes; index; platesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
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In two parts; Part I: Texts; Part II; Portfolio of plates. Trans. with intro. by Alexandre Piankoff. Ed. by N. Rambova.
'The present work is devoted to a selection of important mythological papyri from the Cairo Museum; the Louvre and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; the Archaeological Museum, Florence; the Turin Museum; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is in two parts: a volume containing an historical introduction, descriptions of the papyri, translations of the texts, and a chapter on the religious symbolism of the papyri, illustrated by representative diagrams; and a portfolio of collotype reproductions of thirty papyri, which unfold in order to facilitate their study in sequence.'
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