Title: TUTANKHAMEN; AMENISM, ATENISM AND EGYPTIAN
MONOTHEISM; With Hieroglyphic Texts of Hymns to Amen and Aten
Author: E.A. Wallis Budge
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
City: New YorkYear: 1923 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 160 Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: First American Edition. Original black cloth over mottled pattern boards, with label on spine. 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., 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; rubbed edges; some minor general shelf wear; interior is clean and free of markings.
