RARE comprehensive collection of 175 documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Syene (Aswan), translated into English from papyri in hieratic, Demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Arabic and Coptic, spanning a period of 3000 years. Contains 11 full-page b&w plates. 295x220mm. XVIII+622 pages. Dark-blue Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt front cover and spine. Jacket rubbed. Jacket edges and corners wrinkled. Rear cover bottom edge bumped. Spine edges bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare groundbreaking volume, an indispensable resource for students and scholars of social, political, legal, religious, and linguistic 3,000-year history of Upper Egypt, is otherwise in very good condition.