William Matthew Flinders Petrie
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Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (3 June, 1853 - 28 July, 1942) was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology.
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Excavations
1881-1883 Giza: Measuring the Great Pyramid of Khufu 1882 Abu Rawash 1884 Tanis (EES) 1885 Naukratis (EES) 1886 Nabesha (EES), Defenna (EES) 1887 Aswan, Thebes West Bank, Dahshur 1888-1889 Hawara 1889-1890 Kahun, Gurob 1890 el Lahun 1890 Tell el-Hesi 1890-1891 Meidum 1891-1892 el Amarna 1893-1894 Koptos 1894 Ballas, Naqada 1895-1896 Thebes West Bank, Ramesseum 1896 Behesna (EES) (Oxyrhynchus) 1897 Deshasha (EES) 1897-1898 Dendara (EES) 1898-1899 Abadiya (EES), Hu (EES) 1899-1904 Abydos (EES) 1900-1901 Mahasna, Beit Khallaf, el-Amra 1903-1904 Ahnas (EES), Sedment (EES), Ghurob (EES) 1904 Buto (EES) 1904-1905 Wadi Maghara (EES), Serabit el-Khadim (EES) 1905 Tell Maskhuta 1905-1906 Tell el-Yehudiya 1906 Tell el-Reteba, Saft el-Henna, Ghita 1906-1907 Giza, Rifa, Bala'iza, Shaganba 1907 Atrib, Deir el Abyad, Hagarsa 1908 Memphis 1908-1909 Qurna 1909 Memphis 1909-1910 Meidum 1910 Memphis 1910-1911 Hawara, Mazghuna, Gerza 1911 Memphis, Shurafa, Aftih 1911-1912 Tarkhan, Kafr Ammar 1912 Memphis, Heliopolis 1912-1913 Tarkhan, Riqqa 1913 Memphis 1913-1914 el Lahun, Haraga 1919-1920 el Lahun, Kahun, Ghurob 1920-1921 Ghurob, Sedment 1921-1922 Abydos 1922 Behesna 1923-1924 Qau, Hemamiya (Badari) 1926-1927 Tell Jemmeh 1928-1930 Tell Far`a (South) 1930-1934 Tell el `Ajjul 1935-1937 Sheikh Zoweid 1937-1938 Tell el `Ajjul 1938 Transjordan Survey
Publications
Monographs
- [1874], Researches on the Great Pyramid: or, Fresh Connections: Being a preliminary notice of some Facts, etc.
1877a Diagram of the Great Pyramid: to show that the Great Pyramid's Passages are not Chronological, as taught in the So-Called Time Passage Theory, 1877.
1877b Inductive Metrology: or, the Recovery of Ancient Measures from the Monuments, 1880 Stonehenge: Plans, Descriptions and Theories,
1883 The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, Field & Tuer: London, 1883.
1885a Tanis. Part I 1884-5, EEF Memoir 2, 1885.
1885b The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, second abridged edition, 1885.
1886 Naukratis. Part I 1884-5, EEF Memoir 3, 1886.
1887 Racial Photographs from the Egyptian Monuments, 1887.
1888 A Season in Egypt, 1887, 1888.
1889a Two Hieroglyphic Papyri from Tanis, Part 2: the Geographical Papyrus, EEF Memoir 9, 1889.
1889b Hawara, Biahmu and Arsinoe, 1889.
1889c Historical Scarabs. A Series of Drawings from the Principal Collections, arranged Chronologically, 1889.
1890 Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.: London, 1890. [with Chapters by F.L. Griffith and Percy E. Newberry]
1891a Illahun, Kahun and Gurob. 1889-90, David Nutt: London, 1891.
1891b Tell el Hesy (Lachish), 1891.
1892a Medum,
1892b Ten Years Digging in Egypt, 1881-1891.
1894a Tell el-`Amarna
1894b A History of Egypt. Volume I - From the Earliest Times to the XVth Dynasty, 1894.
1895a Egyptian Decorative Art: a Course of Lectures at the Royal Institution, 1895.
1895b Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri. First Series IVth to XIItth Dynasty, 1895. (Illustrated by Tristram Ellis).
1895c Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri. Second Series, XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty, 1895.
1896a A History of Egypt. Volume II - During the the XVIIth and XVIIIth Dynasties, 1896.
1896b Koptos, 1896.
1897 Six Temples at Thebes, 1896, 1897.
1898a Deshasheh, 1897, EEF Memoir 17, 1898.
1898b Syria and Egypt from the Tell el `Amarna Letters, 1898.
1900a Denderah, 1898, EEF Memoir 17
1900b The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties, Part I, EEF Memoir 18, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London, 1900.
1901a Diospolis Parva: The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, 1898-9, EEF Memoir 20, 1901.
1901b The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties, Part II, EEF Memoir 21, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London, 1901.
1902 Abydos, Part I, 1902, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., EES 22, London, 1902.
1903 Abydos, Part II, 1903, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., EES 24, London, 1902.
1906 Researches in Sinai, John Murray: London, 1906. Extract: Chapter XII (pp. 163-185) - The Revision of Chronology
- [1906], Hyksos and Israelite Cities, London: School of Archaeology, University College and Bernard Quaritch, 1906. html link + pdf
1907a Gizeh and Rifeh, BSAE 13, 1907.
1907b Janus in Modern Life, 1907.
1917a Scarabs and Cylinders with Names, illustrated by the Collection in University College, London, BSAE 29, 1917.
1920 Prehistoric Egypt, British School of Archaeology and Egyptian Research Account Publication 31, London, 1920.
1921 Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery and Palettes, British School of Archaeology, London, 1921.
1931a Ancient Gaza I - Tell el Ajjul, BSAE 53, 1931.
1931b Seventy Years in Archaeology, Sampson Low, 1931.
1932 Ancient Gaza II - Tell el Ajjul
1935 Shabtis, Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London, with Catalogue of Figures from many other Sources, BSAE 57, 1935.
1953 (post.) Ceremonial Slate Palettes and Corpus of Protodynastic Pottery, Quaritch: London, 1953.
Articles
1926 "Observations on the `Recent Geology and Neolithic Industry of the Northern Fayum Desert' by Miss E.W. Gardiner, MA, FRGS", JRAI 56 (1926), pp.325-327.
Bibliography
Monographs
- Drower, Margaret S. [1995], Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. ISBN 0299146243
- [2004] Letters from the Desert - the Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie, Aris & Philips, 2004. ISBN 0856687480
Articles
Sowada, Karin 1996 "The Politics of Error: Flinders Petrie at Diaspolis Parva", Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 7 (1996), pp.89-96, pl.8. Uphill, Eric 1972 "A Bibliography of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), JNES 31 (1972), pp.356ff. Wheeler, Mortimer 1953 "Adventure and Flinders Petrie", Antiquity 27 (1953), pp.87ff.
