Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. III 1.0Category: Books
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Description:Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. III
ed. by A. H. Sayce
Includes the Precepts of Ptah-Hotep, the 'oldest book in the world,' the Hymn to the Nile, and the India House inscription of Nebuchadrezzer.
In presenting a new volume of the Records of the Past to the public, I feel it my duty to remind the reader of certain words which I wrote in the Preface to the first volume. I there said that "the writer who wishes to make use of a translation from an Egyptian or Assyrian text for historical or controversial purposes ought to know where it is certain, and where it is only possible, or at most probable." I therefore promised that "in the present series of volumes doubtful words and expressions should be followed by a note of interrogation, the preceding word being put into italics where necessary"; that is to say, that the reader should be forewarned whenever the translator was himself in doubt as to the correctness of his rendering.
The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep
The Daughter of the Prince of Bakhtan and the Spirit that Possessed Her
Hymn to the Nile
Letters to Egypt from Babylonia, Assyria, and Syria, in the Fifteenth Century B.C.
Ancient Babylonian Agricultural Precepts
The India House Inscription of Nebuchadrezzar the Great
Contract-Tablets Relating to Belshazzar
Records of the Past, 2nd Series, Vol. III
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