Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c.3000 BC-AD 1150

by Geoffrey Thorndike Martin

The volume provides a detailed catalogue of 127 stelae (many funerary) deriving from the Nile Valley, now part of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The stelae are written in various scripts - Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic, Carian, Greek, Coptic and early Arabic - and cover a date-range of over 4000 years. Few museums have published their complete holdings of such material, and the carefully described and translated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521842905
• ISBN13: 9780521842907
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 11.1"