The Flinders Petrie Papyri by John Pentland Mahaffy

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The Flinders Petrie Papyri by John Pentland Mahaffy

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Summary

Published between 1891 and 1905, this three-volume collection contains transcriptions of, and commentary on, Greek papyri fragments discovered by the pioneering Egyptologist Flinders Petrie. The papyri cover a variety of topics, revealing much about Egyptian life in the third century BCE. Each volume contains reproductions of key examples.

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The Flinders Petrie Papyri by John Pentland Mahaffy

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 2, first published in 1893, contains eighteen autotype reproductions of key examples, as well as an introduction on the deciphering of the papyri.

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ISBN 13 9781108068000
ISBN 10 1108068006
Title The Flinders Petrie Papyri
Author John Pentland Mahaffy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2013-09-19
Number of pages 316
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