Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire Nos. 31271 – 31670: Weights and Balances
Cairo: Imprimerie de L'Institute Francais D'Archéologie Orientale, 1908. Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. xvi, 67pp., ix plates. Modern blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. "Description of the weights exhibited in the Cairo Museum... So controverted, however, is the whole question of the standards in use in ancient Egypt, and so easy is it to assign a weight quite incorrectly to a system, that the writer must at the outset declare his great liability to error." (author). Covers the Egyptian and Phoenician Gold Deben, the Egyptian Kedet Standard, the Alexandrian Stater Standard, foreign standards, forms and materials of the weights, and the practical application of the remarks, followed by a general catalog. Illustrated with some in-text hieroglyphs and nine plates. Five of the plates with photogravures of weights, four with measured drawings of weight. Binding with library barcode and sticker, light wear along edges and lightly rubbed. Library bookplate on inside front cover, pocket and numeric stamp on inside back cover. Library stamps on top and bottom edges. Block lightly age-toned. Binding in overall very good condition. vg. Item #44439
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