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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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• Full title: Flinders Petrie Papyri
• Subtitle: With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index
• Author: John Pentland Mahaffy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316
• EAN: 9781108068000
• ISBN: 1108068006
• ID: 02059696
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 760 g
• Dimensions: 297 × 210 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. September 2013

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