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- Title Triumph of Horus
- Author H W Fairman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher HarperCollins Distribution Services, London
- Date 1974
- ISBN 9780713419832
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The Triumph of Horus : An Ancient Egyptian Sacred Drama
by Fairman, Herbert Walter
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THE TRIUMPH OF HORUS : THE OLDEST PLAY IN THE WORLD
by FAIRMAN, H.W. (Ed)
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LONDON: BATSFORD. BOUND IN CLEAN BLUE CLOTH WITH BRIGHT GILT TITLES TO SPINE, THIS DATED 1974 HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION IS VG IN VG JACKET(UNCLIPPED). X/150pp WITH PREFACE, INTRODUCTION (THREE CHAPTERS), THE TRANSLATION, : THE TRIUMPH OF HORUS, GLOSSARY, APPENDICES, 19 FIGURES, SIX PLATES, NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. CONDITION VG/VG . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1974.
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The Triumph of Horus. An Ancient Egyptian Sacred Drama. With a chapter by D. Newton and D. Poole.
by FAIRMAN, H.W., (ed.),
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Batsford, London, 1974. X,150p. ills. Original blue hard bound. Lacking dust wrps. Small personal library marks on tail spine as well as free endpaper. Name on free endpaper. ?As Professor Fairman recalls in the Preface, The Triumph of Horus was first presented in an annotated English translation by him and A.M. Blackman in the Journal of Egyptian Archeology, vols 28-30 (?). In subsequent years Fairman restudied the text along with the other texts of the Edfu temple that constitute the ?Myth of Horus?, and the result is a new translation and new conclusions regarding the nature of this dramatic composition. In chapter 1 Fairman briefly reviews the problem which ancient Egyptian dramatic texts pose to the scholar and cited the extant compositions that can be defined as belonging to the genre of ritual, or liturgical, drama. (?) In chapter 2 Fairman presents the argument for his main thesis, viz that ?The Triumph of Horus is a play, a somewhat primitive religious drama acted annually at Edfu during the…
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