| The Flinders Petrie Papyri 3 Volume Set: With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index Contributor(s): Mahaffy, John Pentland (Author), Smyly, J. G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108068022 ISBN-13: 9781108068024 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $141.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology |
| Physical Information: 2.3" H x 8.3" W x 11.8" (5.60 lbs) 1016 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. 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. |