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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 2
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:316 | Dimensions(mm): Height 297,Width 210 |
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Category/Genre | Egyptian archaeology and Egyptology |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781108068000
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Classifications | Dewey:932 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
21 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 2, first published in 1893, contains eighteen autotype reproductions of key examples, as well as an introduction on the deciphering of the papyri.
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