The Flinders Petrie Papyri 3 Volume Set
With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index

A three-volume collection, published 1891–1905, of transcribed Greek papyri fragments, illuminating Egyptian life in the third century BCE.

John Pentland Mahaffy (Author), J. G. Smyly (Author)

9781108068024, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 19 September 2013

1016 pages, 58 colour illus.
30 x 21.1 x 5.8 cm, 2.44 kg

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.

Volume 1: Additions and corrections
Introduction
Plates 1-30
Index. Volume 2: Introduction
Plates 1-18
Indices
Appendix
Plates 1-3. Volume 3: Note on method of publication
Preface
Addenda et corrigenda
Introduction
The documents
Appendix
Indices
Table of correspondence
Plates 1-7.

Subject Areas: Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]