The Ashmolean Ostracon of Sinuhe

by John W. B. Barns

$200 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Oxford: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 6 pp., 10 plates, 33 8 pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece collotype. The Ashmolean ostracon of the Story of Sinuhe has been more fortunate than some other important texts from Egypt in that its two halves, discovered or disposed of separately, have been finally reunited. The lower half, which had been

  • Printing: later
  • Binding: Hardcover

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