HAMMER-PURGSTALL, Joseph von.

£1,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Copie figurée d'un rouleau de papyrus trouvé en Égypte, publiée par M. Fontana. First edition of this high-quality facsimile of a Book of the Dead papyrus from the collections of Carlo d'Ottavio Fontana, a dealer and collector of Egyptian antiquities based in Trieste, with explanatory observations provided by Austria's foremost orientalist.Fontana acquired the document from a friend who had travelled in Egypt and taken it from a sarcophagus. Versions of the Book of the Dead provided Egyptians with spells and other means to navigate the afterlife Today, the Papyrus Fontana is housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

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