L'oeil & l'Eternite: Portraits Romains d'Egypte
by Berger, Jacques-Edouard and Rene Creux
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG- (Plastic cover has scuffs and a few small tears at spine; binding has slight aging around edges; former owner name and year
- ISBN 10
- 2880040086
- ISBN 13
- 9782880040086
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Paudex: Fontainemore-Flammarion, 1977. Hardcover. VG- (Plastic cover has scuffs and a few small tears at spine; binding has slight aging around edges; former owner name and year on first page; pages are tanning at edges; text and illus. are clear.). Black cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover; color illus. laid on front cover; clear plastic cover; 224 pp., many BW illus., one color illus. near front. Text is in French. In the first three centuries of life in Roman Egypt, people buried their dead and painted portraits of the deceased on wood panels or linen. Shown here are many examples of these Egyptian mummy portraits. An uncommon volume.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 156189
- Title
- L'oeil & l'Eternite: Portraits Romains d'Egypte
- Author
- Berger, Jacques-Edouard and Rene Creux
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- (Plastic cover has scuffs and a few small tears at spine; binding has slight aging around edges; former owner name and year
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 2880040086
- ISBN 13
- 9782880040086
- Publisher
- Fontainemore-Flammarion
- Place of Publication
- Paudex
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Middle Eastern Art ; Mummy Art ; Egyptian Art ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Middle Eastern Art;
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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