The gods of the Egyptians : or studies in Egyptian mythology / E. A. Wallis Budge.
By: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
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BookPublisher: New York : Dover, 1969Description: various pagings : ill. (part fold., col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0486220567.Subject(s): Mythology, EgyptianDDC classification: 704.947
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 704.947 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00059031 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Volume 2 of a two-volume set by one of the foremost Egyptologists contains 20 chapters including Amen, and Amen-Ra, and the Triad of Thebes; Hapi, the God of the Nile; The Triad of Elephantine; Osiris; Isis; miscellaneous gods of the winds, senses, planets, and more; and Sacred Animals and Birds. 49 plates, 93 illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
E.A. Wallis Budge, 1857 - 1934 Budge was the Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He was also a Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Tyrwhitt, and a Hebrew Scholar. He collected a large number of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian Papyri manuscripts. He was involved in numerous archaeology digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan.Budge is known for translating the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is also known as The Papyrus of Ani. He also analyzed many of the practices of Egyptian religion, language and ritual. His written works consisted of translated texts and hieroglyphs and a complete dictionary of hieroglyphs. Budge's published works covered areas of Egyptian culture ranging from Egyptian religion, Egyptian mythology and magical practices. He was knighted in 1920.
E.A. Wallis Budge died on November 23, 1934 in London, England.
(Bowker Author Biography)