Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the British Museum. Volume I: A Theban Archive of the Reign of Ptolemy I., Soter
London: British Museum, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. lii, 1 folding chart, 72 (1)pp., 13 folding plates. Original tan cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Marginalia. Contains list of plates, abbreviations, a folding "plan illustrating the history of the property with which the B. M. archive is concerned and that of neighboring houses," and thirteen folding plates printed to heavy paper, three of them with multiple folds. "The importance of the group of documents published here is that first, on internal evidence, they must all derive originally from a single archive at Thebes, being concerned with the history of a small property (or its owners) over a period of twenty-three years, during which time no less than nine persons successively acquired some sort of legal interest in it; secondly they are all dated to the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, with the exception of the four short tax receipts from the first half of the next reign, with which the dossier, as now preserved, is completed." (Introduction). Text in Demotic and English. Binding with very light wear. Near fine condition. Item #48021
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