THR: UNIVERSITY OF -CRICAGO PRESS 
Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times 
to the Persian Conquest 
Collected, Edited, and Translated with Commentary by JAMES HENRY 
ASTED, Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History in the Uni- 
versity of Chicago; Author of A History of Egypt; Member of the Editorial 
Staff of the Agyptian Dictionary in preparation by the Royal Academies of 
German 
In 5 vols., 8vo, cloth; Vols. I-IV, Text, 1698 pages; Vol. V, Index, 200 pages; net $17.00, post- 
paid $17.95 
[London: Luzac; Leipzig: Harrassowitz] 
6 Ba: fifth and final volume of this monumental work is now completed. Here at last we 
have a corpus of translations of the historical documents of Egypt—the first to 
appear in any language. It is the result of ten years’ incessant labor on the part of the author, 
who has copied with his own hand practically every Egyptian inscription in the collections 
of Europe, and many of those of Egypt. The translations, being thus directly based upon 
the originals, possess a degree of accuracy and authoritativeness never before attained in 
this field. To the Egyptologist and the student of antiquity the work is indispensable. 
It would, however, be a mistake to suppose that these Records are of interest to scholars 
alone. The volumes are replete with information bearing upon the social, political, and 
domestic life of the people of the Nile valley thousands of years before our era, unrolling 
to the layman a series of fascinating pictures of this remarkable civilization. 
The inscriptions are arranged chronologically, and span the period from 4241 to 525 
B.c. Besides the English translations, introductory notes are given furnishing all the data 
necessary for the intelligent study of the texts. For ease of reference each document is 
divided into brief paragraphs numbered consecutively, and is accompanied by a series of 
running footnotes explaining obscure passages. 
CONTENTS 
Vol. I, The First to the Seventeenth spat ca SNe Se cman oe eae OO BPs 
Vol. IL The Eighteenth Dynasty Le Reo gy Co satan gine RON. 
Vol. III, The Nineteenth Dynasty Gl et tl peer Sadie «S|, +. 
Vol. IV, The Twentieth to the Twenty-sinth Dynasties i oe 5 
Voie V, Taek co es Beis ee TRU NSS cel sap 
a by a oe steeped in knowledge of “Professor Breasted’s Berlin training and keen 
the t valuable and meritorious American scholarship make him the very man to 
collection: fp FE tstorical Review. give us the po uateed information of the schools, 
“By the reparation and ——* of these his own valuable contributions, and at the same 
yoloumes the TTnave ersity of Chicago has laid all stu- _ time translations of a literary m erit.”,—W orld’ s Work. 
dents of history under a debt of hase Bore ea “Das Werk ist . . . . zu einem nutzbringenden 
The typographical form in which these volumes und vertrauenswiirdigen Archiv der agyptischen hi- 
come from the University Press is worthy of their storischen Inschriften geworden. Es wird nicht nur 
intrinsic merit.”—The Outlook. dem Aegyptologen und Orientalisten wi en 
“It is very fortunate that so competent a scholar sein, sondern vor allem auch dem Historiker und 
has had the courage to undertake this task, andit Philologen. . . . . Dem Verfasser gebiihrt fiir seine 
is to the bets. of the University of Chicago that this SOrgsame, miihevolle, die Wissenschaft fordernde 
is being irably accomplished . . . . of use Arbeit Dank und Anerkennung. Dru 
not ee for r professed Egyptologists and Assyriolo- OH sind vortrefflich ausgefallen.”—. 
ists, but r all students of early history.”—The Professor 
in the University 
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