Pharaohs : treasures of Egyptian art from the Louvre /
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art in collaboration with the department of egyptian antiquities, Musée du Louvre, Paris. :
100 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color maps ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
0195212355 (Oxford pbk.)
094071731x (CMA cloth)
0940717328 (CMA pbk.)
The Luxor Obelisk and its voyage to Paris /
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"Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early nineteenth century. No obelisk this size (two hundred and fifty tons) had left Egypt in nearly two thousand years, and the task of bringing it fell to a young engineer, Apollinaire Lebas, a man of extraordinary resolve and ability. His is a tale of adventure, excitement, and drama, but one hardly known to the English-speaking world. Lebas' team was struck by the plague; they ran out of wood; they had to wait four months for the Nile to rise to free their beached ship. But in the end, The Luxor, with its precious cargo on board, sailed down the Nile. On October 25, 1836 before two hundred thousand cheering Parisians, Lebas raised his obelisk. He was rewarded handsomely by his king, a medal with his name on it was struck, and his body lies in the famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris along with French luminaries. Now this first-ever translation of Lebas' account, including digitally enhanced copies of his beautiful drawings, makes his remarkable story available to a wide audience"--
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Includes index. :
xix, 215 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 x 25 cm. :
9781617979958
Papyrus grecs et coptes de Baouît conservés au Musée du Louvre : P. Louvre Bawit 1-83 /
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Etude d'un lot de papyrus provenant des fouilles de l'archéologue Jean Clédat sur le site du monastère de Baouît. Chaque document est traduit et commenté, mettant ainsi en lumière l'organisation et l'économie du monastère.
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The work describes a corpus of papyri discovered at the Monastery of Bawit between 1901 and 1905 by Jean Clédat. The papyri are now held by the Louvre Museum. :
183 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182) and index. :
9782724706468
2724706463 :
1110-0001 ;