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The Flinders Petrie Papyri: With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Flinders Petrie Papyri: With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) John Pentland Mahaffy
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Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology |
Series part Volume No. |
Volume 1
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:234 | Dimensions(mm): Height 297,Width 210 |
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Category/Genre | Egyptian archaeology and Egyptology |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781108067997
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Classifications | Dewey:932 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
30 Plates, color
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
19 September 2013 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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 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. Volume 1, first published in 1891, contains thirty autotype reproductions of key examples, as well as a detailed introduction on palaeography and the circumstances surrounding the discovery of some of the papyri.
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