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Auction archive: Lot number 656

Egypt. LEHMANN. Dissertatio Historica

Estimate
€600 - €800
ca. US$718 - US$957
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 656

Egypt. LEHMANN. Dissertatio Historica

Estimate
€600 - €800
ca. US$718 - US$957
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Egypt. LEHMANN. Dissertatio Historica. LEHMANN, Johann. Dissertatio Historica. De Serapide, Aegyptiorum Deo Maximo. Contra Scriptores In Daemonis illius Cultu ApotheoÌ?sin Josephi propugnantes [Wittenberg], M. Henckelius, 1666 4to, 186x145 mm; paper binding; Leaves. 8 unnumbered.; Ornamental initial, round type, greek, hebrew. Unifored browning for the quality of paper.
Very rare first edition. Erudite dissertation of the philologist and historian of the Academy of Wittemberg, who comments on the ancient sources related to Serapis, associated, in Egyptian and Greek mythology, with Osiris, Hermes or Hades: god of fertility and medicine, but also king of the dead in Tartarus . His cult spread throughout the ancient world and in the Roman Empire.Worthy of note is the fact that the destruction of the temple of Serapis in Alexandria in 385 marked the end of paganism in the Roman Empire.

Auction archive: Lot number 656
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 2020
Auction house:
BADO E MART AUCTIONS
Via Dei Soncin, 25
35122 PADOVA
Italy
info@badoemart.it
+39 049 875 5317
+39 049 875 5317
Beschreibung:

Egypt. LEHMANN. Dissertatio Historica. LEHMANN, Johann. Dissertatio Historica. De Serapide, Aegyptiorum Deo Maximo. Contra Scriptores In Daemonis illius Cultu ApotheoÌ?sin Josephi propugnantes [Wittenberg], M. Henckelius, 1666 4to, 186x145 mm; paper binding; Leaves. 8 unnumbered.; Ornamental initial, round type, greek, hebrew. Unifored browning for the quality of paper.
Very rare first edition. Erudite dissertation of the philologist and historian of the Academy of Wittemberg, who comments on the ancient sources related to Serapis, associated, in Egyptian and Greek mythology, with Osiris, Hermes or Hades: god of fertility and medicine, but also king of the dead in Tartarus . His cult spread throughout the ancient world and in the Roman Empire.Worthy of note is the fact that the destruction of the temple of Serapis in Alexandria in 385 marked the end of paganism in the Roman Empire.

Auction archive: Lot number 656
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 2020
Auction house:
BADO E MART AUCTIONS
Via Dei Soncin, 25
35122 PADOVA
Italy
info@badoemart.it
+39 049 875 5317
+39 049 875 5317
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