Author: NAVILLE, Edouard.
Title: The store-city of Pithom and the route of the Exodus.London, Messrs. Trübner & Co. (colophon: printed by Gilbert and Rivington), 1885. With a frontispiece, 12 plates (2 folding) and 2 maps.Modern half cloth with the original publisher's printed wrappers mounted on the boards.
Description: VIII, 31, [1] pp. plus plates.First edition of an account of archaeological excavations by the Egyptologist Édouard Naville (1844-1926) in search of the route of the Exodus and the biblical city of Pithom. Pithom was one of the two storage cities which the Egyptians, according to the Book of Exodus, forced the Israelites to build. Naville went to Egypt at the end of 1882 and started excavating at Tell el-Maskhuta in the Wadi Tumilat in January 1883, which he identified as Pithom after finding an inscription mentioning Pi- or Per-Atum (“House of Atum”) and discovering that some of the bricks of the houses were made without straw (as is mentioned in the Bible). In 1884 he further investigated the route of the Exodus. All these findings were published as the first volume in a series of publications by the Egyptian Exploration Fund, which had funded the expedition. Édouard Naville was a Swiss archaeologist and biblical scholar. Between 1882 and 1914 he led numerous excavations in Egypt. As an excavator of large sites and great monuments, Naville cared little for small objects and findings and was criticized by more modern archaeologists such as Flinders Petrie.With half of a stamp on the front and a bookplate on the pastedown. Originally wrappers discoloured; a very good copy.l Hall, "Édouard Naville" in: The journal of Egyptian archaeology XIII, no. 1/2 (1927), pp. 1-6; Holladay Jr, "Pithom", in: The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt III, pp. 50-53; Lesko, "Naville, Édouard", in: The Oxford encyclopedia of archaeology in the Near East IV, p. 113.
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Title: The store-city of Pithom and the route of the Exodus.London, Messrs. Trübner & Co. (colophon: printed by Gilbert and Rivington), 1885. With a frontispiece, 12 plates (2 folding) and 2 maps.Modern half cloth with the original publisher's printed wrappers mounted on the boards.
Description: VIII, 31, [1] pp. plus plates.First edition of an account of archaeological excavations by the Egyptologist Édouard Naville (1844-1926) in search of the route of the Exodus and the biblical city of Pithom. Pithom was one of the two storage cities which the Egyptians, according to the Book of Exodus, forced the Israelites to build. Naville went to Egypt at the end of 1882 and started excavating at Tell el-Maskhuta in the Wadi Tumilat in January 1883, which he identified as Pithom after finding an inscription mentioning Pi- or Per-Atum (“House of Atum”) and discovering that some of the bricks of the houses were made without straw (as is mentioned in the Bible). In 1884 he further investigated the route of the Exodus. All these findings were published as the first volume in a series of publications by the Egyptian Exploration Fund, which had funded the expedition. Édouard Naville was a Swiss archaeologist and biblical scholar. Between 1882 and 1914 he led numerous excavations in Egypt. As an excavator of large sites and great monuments, Naville cared little for small objects and findings and was criticized by more modern archaeologists such as Flinders Petrie.With half of a stamp on the front and a bookplate on the pastedown. Originally wrappers discoloured; a very good copy.l Hall, "Édouard Naville" in: The journal of Egyptian archaeology XIII, no. 1/2 (1927), pp. 1-6; Holladay Jr, "Pithom", in: The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt III, pp. 50-53; Lesko, "Naville, Édouard", in: The Oxford encyclopedia of archaeology in the Near East IV, p. 113.
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