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Reference code
Petrie MSS 1.2
Title
Petrie Journal 1881 to 1882 (Giza and Nile voyage)
Date(s)
- 1881-1882 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
232 pages
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(1853-1942)
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Scope and content
- 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.
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Publication note
- Scans and transcripts of the journal, http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4pej8182.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], 27-36 (OEB 147191).
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Drower, Margaret S., Flinders Petrie: a life in archaeology (1985), 48-64 (OEB 29381).
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Drower, Margaret S. (ed.), Letters from the desert: the correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie (2004), 31-40 (OEB 154602).
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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.