The Flinders Petrie Papyri: With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Flinders Petrie Papyri: With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Pentland Mahaffy
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
Series part Volume No. Volume 2
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:316
Dimensions(mm): Height 297,Width 210
Category/GenreEgyptian archaeology and Egyptology
ISBN/Barcode 9781108068000
ClassificationsDewey:932
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 21 Plates, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 19 September 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

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 2, first published in 1893, contains eighteen autotype reproductions of key examples, as well as an introduction on the deciphering of the papyri.