Daumas, Les Moyens d'expression du grec et de l'égyptien.

Condition : good, cover slightly stained and with small lateral folds, some underlining in the introduction, uncut.
Pages : XV, 302 pp.

François Daumas (born on 3 January 1915 in Castelnau-le-Lez, where he died on 6 October 1984) was for ten years (1959-1969) director of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo.
He had a brilliant career: he was taught in Paris by Egyptologists such as Gustave Lefebvre, Pierre Lacau, Michel Malinine, but also by specialists in Chamito-Semitic languages such as Edouard Dhorme (Hebrew), René Labat (Assyro-Babylonian), Régis Blachère (Arabic) and André Basset (Berber). During his studies, he befriended his fellow student Antoine Guillaumont (1915-2000), future professor at the Collège de France and holder of the chair "Christianisme et gnoses dans l'Orient préislamique". Later, in 1964-1965, François Daumas carried out excavations in Egypt in the company of this eminent specialist in Coptic language and thought.
His dissertation at the École pratique des hautes études, Les Moyens d'expression du grec et de l'égyptien comparés dans les décrets de Canope et de Memphis (1952), is very revealing of his dual approach - and his dual competence -, classical and orientalist, and of his constant concern to consider Pharaonic culture in its Mediterranean context in order to shed light on what it bequeathed to the West through the Biblical, Greek and Roman worlds.