The Flinders Petrie Papyri - With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index (Paperback)

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. First published in 1905 with significant input from Mahaffy's colleague J. G. Smyly, Volume 3 contains seven autotype reproductions of key examples, as well as a review by Mahaffy of the entire project and its scholarly reception.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology, Volume 3
Release date:	September 2013
First published:	September 2013
Authors:	John Pentland Mahaffy • J.G. Smyly
Dimensions:	297 x 210 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	466
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-06801-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General
LSN:	1-108-06801-4
Barcode:	9781108068017

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