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[ SOLD OUT ] DUVAL, P.-M., and G. PINAULT, Recueil des Inscriptions Gauloises (R.I.G.). Volume III. Les Calendriers (Coligny, Villards d'Héria). Éditions du CNRS, Paris, 1986. 442p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Folding plates. Large paperback. Cover partly a bit discoloured. Spine with reading trace. Series: Gallia, XLVe supplément). 'The Calender is an extraordinaty lunar-solar compilation of months and days, covering one lustrum, each year containing twelve months of 29 or 30 days, with intercalary months inserted to bring the calender fully into line with solar years over the five-year period. (...). The problems of arrangement, decipherment and interpretation posed by this text are formidable, requiring advanced knowledge not only of epigraphy but also of the Celtic language and the complex mathematics of calenders - plus the skills of a wartime codebreaker. (...) This edition (...) is the work of a distinguished epigrapher and a linguistic specialist, who have combined their own researches with extensive discussions with other experts over a period of nearly thirty years. (...) This edition is an admirable example of interdisciplinary co-operation and, as a work of reference, should certainly stand the test of time.' (JILL HARRIES in The Classical Review (New Series), 1987, p.278). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. (Antiquarian) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable) ISBN: 9782222036685