The Flinders Petrie Papyri With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index Volume 1

The Flinders Petrie PapyriWith Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index\nAuthor(s): John Pentland Mahaffy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108067997, 978-1108067997\nSynopsis\nA pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie [tel] 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 [tel] 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 1, first published in 1891, contains thirty autotype reprod.