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2017x-0198805322Oxford Univ Pr 2017. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 945 pages. 9.50x6.50x3.00 inches. Oxford Univ Pr paperback
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1846021597New York: J.E.D. Comstock 1846. Original gilt decorated half calf leather binding. Comparmented and decorative cloth boards. Prev ious owner's gilt stamped name on the front cover. Numerous hand water colored plates of flowers. Lightly foxed. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Photos available upon request. First Edition. Half Calf Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. J.E.D. Comstock Hardcover
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2012x-0674055489Harvard Univ Pr 2012. Hardcover. New. 330 pages. 9.75x6.25x1.50 inches. Harvard Univ Pr hardcover
1925856119.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2006SKU0570680Jossey-Bass 2020-06-30. paperback. Good. 7x0x9. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Jossey-Bass paperback
1773435191.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2018Atlantic-9781732453104MixIG-UK 2018. Hardcover. New. MixIG-UK hardcover
2018Atlantic-9781732453104MixIG-UK 2018. Hardcover. New. MixIG-UK hardcover
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2020009317Princeton University Press Princeton 2020 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; xi 561 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780691200903 9780691233963 0691200904 0691233969 ; OCLC 1110656207 ; dark grey cloth in dustjacket; dustjacket attached to endpapers ; Contents: A Quaker's Odyssey. Dinner at Longman's -- In the classroom of nature -- An errand in the city -- The vocal circle -- Lecturer and physician -- The Herculaneum papyri -- Antiquity Embraced. Words from Egypt's past -- The sounds of an ancient language -- Paris atmospheres -- Rooted in place -- Hier pour demain -- L'Affaire Polycarpe -- An Egyptian geography of Egypt -- Indications -- Scripts and Bones. Summer at Worthing -- Letters from Paris -- The papyri of the Description de l'Egypte -- Seeking uxellodunum -- The master of conditions -- Abandoning the alphabet at Grenoble --Demonstrations -- Iconoclasm at the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres -- Reading the Past. The obelisk from Philae -- A singular and puzzling artifact -- A momentous change -- Words and sounds -- Parisian reactions -- Words across the Channel -- Antique Letters. Grey's box -- An opportune encounter -- The "true key" to Egyptian hieroglyphs -- The semantic trap avoided -- The reception of the Precis -- "Hold your laughter friends!" ; "In 1799 a French officer was clearing debris from a military installation when he discovered a stele bearing three scripts: ancient Greek hieroglyphic and a third that could not be definitively identified. This artifact which came to be known as the Rosetta Stone has traditionally played the starring role in the history of decipherment which has until now been understood as an instance of code-breaking a kind of Bletchley Park avant la lettre. In The Riddle of the Rosetta Buchwald and Josefowicz delve into a wide array of British and French sources as well as archival material to produce a comprehensive new history of the decipherment. More than a puzzle-solving exercise based on a single artifact the decipherment engaged with the era's social cultural and intellectual contexts. It grew in the midst of heated disputes about language historical evidence the status of the Bible the nature of polytheism and the importance of classical learning. Jean-Francois Champollion in France and his British rival the medical doctor and polymath Thomas Young approached the decipherment from different standpoints derived from their contrasting temperaments educational experiences and attitudes to antiquity. Imbued with reverence for Greek culture and raised a Quaker Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing principally as a way to uncover new knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. To him the decipherment was akin to a challenge posed by a problem in mathematics or science. Champollion's altogether different motivations and attitude unfolded amidst the political chaos of Restoration France in fierce response to the intrigues of opposing scholars aligned with throne and altar. Unlike Young Champollion admired ancient Egypt and this sympathy coupled with his willingness to upend conventional wisdom about the enigmatic Egyptian signs freed him to travel a path down which Young refused to go. A remarkable intellectual adventure reaching from the filthy back streets of Georgian London to the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France from the forgotten byways of provincial France to the splendor of the Valley of the Kings this book reveals the decipherment in its full historical complexity" ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020 hardcover
2020x-0691200904Princeton Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 561 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
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2020__0691200904Princeton Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 561 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
2009DADAX0691200904Princeton University Press 2020-09-15. hardcover. New. 6.25x1.75x9.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Princeton University Press hardcover
2020FLAHIVE-2942Princeton University Press Princeton 2020 First printing with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very light bowing to boards of an otherwise beautiful copy. F2942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Princeton University Press, Princeton hardcover
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20100691200904_newPrinceton University Press 2020-10-19. hardcover. New. 6x2x9. Princeton University Press hardcover
A9780691200903Hardback. New. <p><b>A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Europe</b><br /><br />In 1799 a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology—that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on fresh archival evidence to provide a major new account of how the English polymath Thomas Young and the French philologist Jean-François Champollion vied to be the first to solve the riddle of the Rosetta.<br /><br />Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz bring to life a bygone age of intellectual adventure. Much more than a decoding exercise centered on a single artifact the race to decipher the Rosetta Stone reflected broader disputes about language historical evidence biblical truth and the value of classical learning. Buchwald and Josefowicz paint compelling portraits of Young and Champollion two gifted intellects with altogether different motivations. Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing as a means to greater knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. Champollion swept up in the political chaos of Restoration France and fiercely opposed to the scholars aligned with throne and altar admired ancient Egypt and was prepared to upend conventional wisdom to solve the mystery of the hieroglyphs.<br /><br />Taking readers from the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France to the windswept monuments of the Valley of the Kings <i>The Riddle of the Rosetta</i> reveals the untold story behind one of the nineteenth century's most thrilling discoveries.</p> hardcover
63823131University of Chicago Press pp. 498 Indices. Papeback. New. University of Chicago Press unknown
1989SKU1081171University of Chicago Press 1989-01-03. hardcover. Good. 6x1x9. University of Chicago Press 1989. Hard cover first edition. Ex-library copy with the usual markings otherwise Good condition. University of Chicago Press hardcover
