File Petrie MSS 1.1 - Petrie Journal 1880 to 1881 (Giza)

328 pages

• 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.

• Scans and transcripts of the journal, http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4pej8081.html

• Petrie, W. M. Flinders, The pyramids and temples of Gizeh (1883) (OEB 14761) https://archive.org/details/pyramidsandtemp00petrgoog (accessed 21/03/2018).

• Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Seventy years in archaeology [1931], 20-6 (OEB 147191).

• Drower, Margaret S., Flinders Petrie: a life in archaeology (1985), 34-48 (OEB 29381).

• Drower, Margaret S. (ed.), Letters from the desert: the correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie (2004), 12-31 (OEB 154602).

• 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.