The Flinders Petrie Papyri

With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index

By:

John Pentland Mahaffy

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology

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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 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.

Release date Australia

September 19th, 2013

Author

John Pentland Mahaffy

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

30 Plates, color

Pages

234

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology

Dimensions

210x297x13

ISBN-13

9781108067997

Product ID

21581681

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