Identity area
Reference code
Petrie MSS 1.1
Title
Petrie Journal 1880 to 1881 (Giza)
Date(s)
- 1880-1881 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
328 pages
Context area
Name of creator
(1853-1942)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Journal letters
- November 30, 1880, to June 22, 1881.
- Handwritten.
- Petrie's first visit to Egypt commencing with a measurement-survey of the Giza pyramids, which was continued and completed the following season (1881 to 1882).
- Main site: Giza.
- Other sites: Dahshur and Saqqara.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
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Language of material
Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
- Scans and transcripts of the journal, http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4pej8081.html
Publication note
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Petrie, W. M. Flinders, The pyramids and temples of Gizeh (1883) (OEB 14761) https://archive.org/details/pyramidsandtemp00petrgoog (accessed 21/03/2018).
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Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Seventy years in archaeology [1931], 20-6 (OEB 147191).
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Drower, Margaret S., Flinders Petrie: a life in archaeology (1985), 34-48 (OEB 29381).
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Drower, Margaret S. (ed.), Letters from the desert: the correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie (2004), 12-31 (OEB 154602).
Notes area
Note
- The journal has been transcribed by Cat Warsi; Manon Schutz and the Griffith Institute Team have proofread it and prepared it for publication on this website.