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Lepsius

[ lep-see-oos ]

noun

  1. Karl Rich·ard [kah, r, l , rikh, -ah, r, t], 1810–84, German philologist and Egyptologist.


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The University of Bayreuth has revoked his Ph.D. "We were duped by a fraudster," says Bayreuth law professor Oliver Lepsius.

Daughter of Gustav Graf and wife of the portrait painter, Lepsius.

He is generally said to have died of grief; but Lepsius contends, that he survived even the accession of Hadrian.

The stele is shown by Lepsius in his Auswahl, Plate 9, and is the earliest example of a hieroglyphic inscription known.

Cailliaud only allows it one peristylar court, while Hoskins and Lepsius 385give it two.

In the plan given by Lepsius there are two hypostyle halls with a wall between them, an arrangement which is also found at Abydos.

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