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The Flinders Petrie Papyri 3 Volume Set

The Flinders Petrie Papyri 3 Volume Set

With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index

by John Pentland Mahaffy and J. G. Smyly
Mixed media product
Publication Date: 19/09/2013

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A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. A great many of his publications have been reissued in this series. In the 1890s, the Irish scholar Sir John Pentland Mahaffy (1839-1919) took the lead on the considerable task of cataloguing, transcribing and commenting on the Greek papyri found by Petrie in mummy cartonnage on recent digs in Egypt. This three-volume collection is the result. The texts, comprising private correspondence, legal records, petitions and many other types of document, reveal a great deal about life in Egypt in the third century BCE. Volume 1 (1891) contains thirty autotype reproductions of key examples. Volume 2 (1893) contains eighteen reproductions, while Volume 3 (1905), largely the work of J. G. Smyly, contains seven autotypes in addition to a review by Mahaffy of the entire project and its scholarly reception.
ISBN:
9781108068024
9781108068024
Category:
Archaeology by period / region
Format:
Mixed media product
Publication Date:
19-09-2013
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
1016
Dimensions (mm):
300x211x58mm
Weight:
2.44kg

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