The Flinders Petrie Papyri
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)

9781108068017, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 September 2013

466 pages, 7 colour illus.
29.7 x 21 x 2.4 cm, 1.11 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 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.

Note on method of publication
Preface
Addenda et corrigenda
Introduction
The documents
Appendix
Indices
Table of correspondence
Plates 1-7.

Subject Areas: Archaeology by period / region [HDD]