The Flinders Petrie Papyri 3 Volume Set : With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index Mixed media product
by John Pentland Mahaffy, J. G. Smyly
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology series
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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.
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- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:1016 pages, 58 Plates, color
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/09/2013
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- ISBN:9781108068024
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- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:1016 pages, 58 Plates, color
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/09/2013
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- ISBN:9781108068024
