The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo. Bollingen Series XXIII.
New Jersey: Princeton University Press / Bollingen, 1993. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. xxiv + 120pp. Glossy card covers. B&w frontis and appendix, index of symbols, index of subjects symbolized. A revised edition, with new Foreword, of this classic study of "Hieroglyphica," the fourth century C.E. work in which Horapollo Nillacus collected together nearly two hundred allegorical symbols which he said formed the basis of the ancient Egyptian hieroglphics. In this analysis of the work "Boas discusses all four layers of meaning implicit in the hieroglyphs: literal, figurative, allegorical and analogical age.... and traces the influences which, in the 16th century, caused the rebirth of interest in symbolism - the first and greatest being Platonism." A tight, clean, Fine copy. Item #72736
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