book
- Museum number
- EPH-ME.305
- Description
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Printed book; entitled "Sheba visits Solomon"; hardback, red cover, gilt decoration on the front cover with eponymous queen reclining in a litter carried by four servants in Egyptian dress beneath a starry sky; spine faded.
- Production date
- 1932
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.50 centimetres
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Thickness: 2.80 centimetres
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Width: 28 centimetres (when opened)
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Width: 13.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Originally published as "Saba Besucht Salomo" by Ullstein A.G., Berlin in 1930; reprinted by Viking in 1932 as a translation by David Zablodowsky. The line drawing illustrations are by Otto Linnekogel; the original dustwrapper carried a larger version of the cover decoration.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2004-2005 17 Oct-13 Mar, California, Bowers Museum, 'Queen of Sheba: Legend and Reality'
- Condition
- Fair; spine slightly faded
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- EPH-ME.305
