The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art -- I. From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom
Softcover
1990 · New York
by Hayes, William C.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1990. Fifth printing, revised. Softcover. VG. Dark purple & illus. wraps, 421 pp., BW illus., fold-out map at rear. "Devoted to Egyptian culture from its origins in the Stone Age through the succeeding periods to the collapse of the Middle Kingdom in the eighteenth century B.C. It covers ten thousand years of Egyptian prehistory and almost seventeen hundred years of recorded time; it deals with more than eighteen thousand works of art and craftsmanship. Much of the material has never been published elsewhere." (back cover). (Inventory #: 156381)