László Török

PrefaceCsanád BálintThe fiftieth year is only celebrated as a round anniversary in European cultures using the decimal system. In Inner Asia and in the Far East, time is traditionally measured in twelve-year cycles. The number itself is unimportant - much more important is our attitude to the...

TÖRÖK: ISTVÁN TÓTH The narrator of A !a recherche du temps perdu says farewell with this sentence to the hero of his youth, the allegorical Bergotte modeled on Anatole France, hero of the author as a young man. At the beginning of this tribute of a friend let me arrange such an angel figure...

1. Introduction I. Terminology The majority oi the over 200 objects of Egyptian art and culture described in tliis catalogue were brought together from tfie Coptic Museum, Cairo, the Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, and the newly-founded Alexandria National Museum, Alexandria. Tlie material...

After the Pharaohs Treasures of Coptic art from Egyptian collections The last two centuries of pliaraonic Egypt were spent in a struggle with the Persian Empire until the land was conquered by Alexander the Great in 3 32 BC. Between 306 and 30 BC Egypt was ruled by the dynasty of the Ptolemies,...