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Etat : good. no dustjacket. 8vo pp.156, previous owners name on half title page. book.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1984. [vii], 131pp. 15 B&W plates to rear. Light foxing to edges. Previous owner's paper label with hand written title to spine. Otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions. "The letters written by Hekanakhte are some of the outstanding documents of ancient Egypt, providing us with an unparalleled insight into the texture of daily life with its problems and tasks. Due to the frailty of the writing meterial very few texts of similar nature have survived, especially from a comparably early date. This makes them all the more important, but also causes considerable difficulties in their understanding. They are further increased by the very nature of letters in general, which take information shared by the communicating parties for granted, while the outsider has to do all he can to bridge the prevailing information gap.".…