"Vetus inscriptio Graeca inter rudera antiquae urbis Sarai prope Zarizyn ad Wolgam detecta. Edidit et illustravit Frid. Graefe."
St.-Petersbourg (Petropoli): l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1832. [55]-68 pp. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First edition. A very good or better copy, spine lightly rubbed. Item #29189
Extract from Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg. Sciences politiques, histoire et philologie. 6e Serie, T. 1. (Found in the ancient city of Sarai, i.e. Sarytsyn on the Volga). Sarai, near modern Volgograd, was the capital of the empire of the Golden Horde. The Latin text describes the Greek inscription and provides the restored text. Nice bookplate of A.I Ward; bound by Weilen and Goos, with their label. Scarce.
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