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William Matthew Flinders Petrie Collection

  • Petrie MSS
  • Collection
  • 1860s-2004

Papers of William Matthew Flinders Petrie including journals covering 38 seasons (1880-1929) and photographs of excavations. The collection also includes secondary material associated with Petrie's journals, photographs of objects in museums, souvenir photographs and photocopies of material held at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London.

Petrie, (Sir) William Matthew Flinders

Petrie Journal 1881 to 1882 (Giza and Nile voyage)

  • Journal letters.
  • October 3, 1881, to May 8, 1882.
  • Handwritten.
  • Petrie's main activity was the continuation of the measurement-survey of the pyramids at Giza, which was started the preceding season (1880 to 1881). This was the first season that Petrie took photographs using the pinhole camera he built himself.
    -Main site: Giza.
  • Other sites: Saqqara, Abusir, Maidum, el-Hiba, Kom el-Ahmar, Amarna, Dendera, Thebes, Medinet Habu, Ramesseum, Luxor, Medinet el-Faiyum, Dahshur, Hawara.

Petrie Journal 1885 to 1886 (Naucratis, Nabesha, and Dafana)

  • Journal letters
  • November 23, 1885, to June 1, 1886.
  • Handwritten.
  • Petrie, assisted by F. Ll. Griffith and E. A. Gardner, resumes excavating at Naucratis. In January 1886, Gardner is left to continue excavating at Naucratis while Petrie and Griffith begin excavating at Nebesha. At the end of March 1886, Petrie moves to Dafana and excavates there.
  • Main sites: Naucratis (Naukratis), Nabesha (Tell Nebesha; Tell Farun), and Dafana (Tell Dafana; Daphnae).
  • Other sites: Tanis (San el-Hagar).
  • Pages 7-9 and 45-6 are copies of letters by Petrie's mother Anne.

Petrie Journal 1887 to 1888 (Medinet el-Faiyum and Hawara)

  • Journal letters.
  • December 5, 1887, through to May 12, 1888.
  • Handwritten.
  • Petrie begins the season excavating in the temple of Sobek at Medinet el-Faiyum, then moves on to Hawara where he surveys the pyramid, as well as finding many mummy-portraits from the Roman Period cemetery there.
  • Main sites: Medinet el-Faiyum and Hawara.
  • Other sites: Byahmu (Biyahmu), Medinet el-Gurob (Ghurab; Gourob).

Pectorals, recto, not identified, now in Turin, Museo Egizio

Pectorals, recto, not identified, now in Turin, Museo Egizio.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Blue glazed pectoral, inserted scarab, of [pr(sic) nbjjw n nb tȝwj Snr mȝʿ-ḫrw] - another of [nb pr ʿntjj] / Wooden pectoral, inserted scarab of [Njȝnjj] - Wooden pectoral of [Rʿ-ms] scarab black blue glaze, plate of grey limestone T'.

[Left] Female figurine, not identified, now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico; [right] double-ushabti, not identified, now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico

[Left] Female figurine, not identified, now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico; [right] double-ushabti, not identified, now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Pottery doll with thread hair. / Double ushabti, green glazed B'.

Right half of the stela of Nameret, son of Takelothis II, provenance not known, formerly in Turin, Museo Egizio, Cat. 1468, now joined to the other half in Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Inv. 329

Right half of the stela of Nameret, son of Takelothis II, provenance not known, formerly in Turin, Museo Egizio, Cat. 1468, now joined to the other half in Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Inv. 329.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Painted wood tablet of prince [Ṯkrṯ] Cat. 1468 T'.

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