The Flinders Petrie Papyri: With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index

di John Pentland Mahaffy (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2013

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 1, first published in 1891, contains thirty autotype reproductions of key examples, as well as a detailed introduction on palaeography and the circumstances surrounding the discovery of some of the papyri.

• Autore: John Pentland Mahaffy
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
• Anno: 2013
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 234 p.
• Dimensioni: 297 x 210 mm
• Peso: 570 gr.
• EAN: 9781108067997

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