Identity area
Reference code
Petrie MSS 1.17
Title
Petrie Journal 1898 to 1899 (Diospolis Parva - Hu and Abadiya)
Date(s)
- 1898-1899 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
Part 1, 53 pages
Part 2, 56 pages
Part 3, 170 pages (1 diary)
Context area
Name of creator
(1853-1942)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Journal letters.
- Part 1, W. M. Flinders Petrie journal, November 29, 1898, to March 20, 1899.
- Part 2, Hilda Petrie journal, November 14, 1898, to March 1, 1899.
- Part 3, Hilda Petrie diary “1898-9 / SEMAINEH & HOW.”, December 6, 1898, to January 25, 1899. Camping trip (El Ga’ara, El Ghabat and Nawahed), March 2-5, 1899. Pages 143-70 are loose pages and the order is uncertain.
- All handwritten.
- Sites: Abadiya, Hu (Diospolis Parva).
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Related units of description
Publication note
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Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Diospolis Parva: the cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu 1898-99 (1901) (OEB 147008) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001647514 (accessed 22/03/2018).
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Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Seventy years in archaeology [1931], 171-2 (OEB 147191).
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Drower, Margaret S., Flinders Petrie: a life in archaeology (1985), 249-51 (OEB 29381).
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Drower, Margaret S. (ed.), Letters from the desert: the correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie (2004), 148-56 (OEB 154602).
Notes area
Note
- This journal (= three parts) has been transcribed by Cat Warsi; Francisco Bosch-Puche has proofread it and prepared it for publication on this website.