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Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2023. Softcover. Fine Condition. Very slight wear to cover. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Overall, very sound and presentable. Publisher's note: This facsimile edition of the 1972 reissue of Flinders Petrie's 1914 pioneering typological catalogue of Egyptian amulets, is one of a number of such catalogues to be reissued in this new series. Remarkably - although points of detail emanating from more recent research have surfaced - it remains unsurpassed in its comprehensive description, typological classification, and interpretation. While an absence of reasoned argument for the dating of his various groups is a weak point of Petrie's study from the point of view of modern scholarship, his attention to detail and careful consideration of typology and potential meaning, borne of decades of observation, means that this, and the other catalogues in the series, remain as invaluable reference books for Egyptologists. Based on examination of his own extensive collection of… Leer más