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Peet MSS
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- 1882-1934 (Produção)
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5 slip index drawers and 4 boxes
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História biográfica
British Egyptologist and archaeologist. Born, Liverpool 1882. Died, Oxford 1934. Studied Mathematics and Classics at Queen's College, Oxford. Jodrell Scholar. Craven Fellow, 1906, which enabled him to study archaeology in Rome. Pelham Student, British School in Rome, 1909. Entered Egyptology and excavated with P. E. Newberry at Abydos, and then in the Delta in 1909. Continued working at Abydos, 1909-13, at first with E. Naville, and eventually on his own. Studied Egyptian with Sir A. Gardiner and taught himself Coptic and Demotic. Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester, 1913-28. Director of the Egypt Exploration Society's Excavations. Laycock Student in Egyptology, Oxford, 1923. Brunner Professor of Egyptology, Liverpool University, 1920-33. Reader and Professor designate in Egyptology, Oxford, 1933-4, but died before the appointment was confirmed. Fellow, Queen's College, Oxford, 1933. Specialised in the study and translation of papyri, especially those concerned with mathematics and Ramesside tomb robberies at Thebes. Edited the Liverpool Annals of Art and Archaeology, 1921 onwards, and the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, from 1923. Published extensively in these publications as well as many others.
História do arquivo
The slip index drawers and notebooks were presumably passed to Sir Alan H. Gardiner after Peet's death.
Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência
Slip index drawers and notebooks formed part of the bequest of Sir Alan H. Gardiner.
Small watercolour donated by Mrs Clare Newton (Peet's great-niece) on 28/06/2014.
Group of family papers and ephemera donated by Mrs Catherine Barnes (Peet's great-granddaughter) on 29/10/2014 (main batch) and 29/08/2024 (additional material).
Some additional correspondence donated by The Queen's College, University of Oxford (the Peet Library) on 03/06/2019.
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Âmbito e conteúdo
Index of Late Egyptian Grammar, index for Egyptian Dictionary, and various other indexes. 18 notebooks containing copies of hieratic papyri and ostraca. Small watercolour. 2 boxes of family papers and ephemera, including personal correspondence, certificates, photographs, notes for Peet’s books on Neolithic Italy, a couple of pages from an inaugural lecture, newspaper cuttings, a travel record small notebook, a Latin and Greek classes notebook, a diary, etc.
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Kept as received.
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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions; Peet MSS 4.11 consultation only.
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford; Peet MSS 4.11 not known.
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- inglês
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These are originals.
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- Photograph: GI Photograph 101.141 (portrait of Peet in striped cricket jacket; Abydos, 1910?)
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