The Flinders Petrie Papyri
The Flinders Petrie Papyri
J. G. Smyly
£46.00
GBPA 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 of his labours. 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. First published in 1905 with significant input from Mahaffy's colleague J. G. Smyly, Volume 3 contains seven autotype reproductions of key examples, as well as a review by Mahaffy of the entire project and its scholarly reception.
Product details
September 2013Paperback
9781108068017
466 pages
297 × 210 × 24 mm
1.11kg
7 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Note on method of publication
- Preface
- Addenda et corrigenda
- Introduction
- The documents
- Appendix
- Indices
- Table of correspondence
- Plates 1-7.
