Title: TUTANKHAMEN; AMENISM, ATENISM AND EGYPTIAN
MONOTHEISM; With Hieroglyphic Texts of Hymns to Amen and Aten
Author: E.A. Wallis Budge
Publisher: Martin Hopkinson & Co. Ltd.
City: LondonYear: 1923 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 160 Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: First UK Edition. Original gilt-decorated
brick cloth with pharaonic seal on cover, numerous in-text B&W
illustrations, and several glossy photographic plates — including frontispiece
of Queen Nefertiti. Translations and Illustrations by Sir Ernest A. Wallis
Budge, Litt. D., D. Litt., Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of
the British Museum.
An important scholarly — and popular —
volume by the great British Egyptologist, E.A. Wallis Budge, of Tutankhamen, appearing
immediately after the great 1922 discovery by Howard Carter and George Herbert
of the tomb (c.1332-1323 B.C.E., 18th Dynasty). A beautifully printed work,
generously illustrated with plates and drawings in text. Budge's translation
and publication of this volume — which includes his translations of Pharaoh
Akhenaten's "Hymns to the Aten" — helped clarify the enormity of this
discovery as the work contributed to the cultural frenzy associated with
"King Tut" and his golden era. In very good condition: corners and
spine ends lightly bumped and chafed, gift inscription on front endpaper; text is
otherwise clean and free of markings.
