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Title: Naukratis
Author: Ernest Arthur Gardner - Ernest Arthur Gardner (16 March 1862 – 27 November 1939) was an English archaeologist. He was the director of the British School at Athens between 1887 and 1895. [Courtesy Wikipedia.], Flinders Petrie - Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his wife, Hilda Petrie. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and ceramic findings. [Courtesy Wikipedia]
Publisher: Trubner & Co.
City: London
Year: 1886, 1888
Printing Information: First Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: No
Width: 10.5 Height: 13
Book Details: Naucratis or Naukratis was a city of Ancient Egypt, on the Canopic branch of the Nile river, and 45 mi (72 km) SE of the open sea and Alexandria. It was the first and, for much of its early history, the only permanent Greek colony in Egypt, acting as a symbiotic nexus for the interchange of Greek and Egyptian art and culture.
The modern site of the city has become an archaeological find of the highest significance and the source of not only many beautiful objects of art now gracing the museums of the world but also an important source of some of the earliest Greek writing in existence, provided by the inscriptions on its pottery.
The sister port of Naucratis was the harbor town of Thonis/Heracleion, which was only discovered in 2000. [Courtesy Wikipedia]
Condition / Notes: These antique archaeological volumes are bound in printed paper-covered boards with cloth backstrips. There is moderate rubbing, toning, chipping, and moisture marking to the exteriors. The first volume has boards separated from the text block and the bookplate of the Harvard College Library on the front pastedown. The pages show mild age toning and scattered light marginal spotting/foxing, mostly in the margins. These works are profusely illustrated with photographic plates, charts, and maps, including several fold-outs.
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About the lot N° 5249 Title : Naukratis, Period : 1888 National Book Auctions, auctioneer, Freeville, USIt's free to register now to view! Sale title : Books, Art and Ephemera - London, Faulkner, Egypt, Gorey Sale date : 27 Aug 2016It's free to register now to view! Sale Reference : Live Sale