Identity area
Reference code
Petrie MSS 1.4
Title
Petrie Journal 1884 to 1885 (Naucratis)
Date(s)
- 1884-1885 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
223 pages
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(1853-1942)
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- Journal letters
- November 8, 1884, to May 31, 1885.
- Handwritten.
- At Naucratis, Petrie is assisted by F. Ll. Griffith, who is on his first visit to Egypt. In April 1885, Griffith is left to continue excavating at Naucratis while Petrie returns to Tanis to continue the previous season’s work. It was at Naucratis that Petrie earned the moniker “father of pots”, Griffith's being the “father of potsherds”, which is mentioned by Petrie in the journal.
- Main sites: Naucratis (Naukratis) and Tanis (San el-Hagar).
- Pages 15-68 and 92 are photocopies of the originals kept in the Egypt Exploration Society in London.
- Pages 69, 179 and 196-199 do not exist.
- Pages 21v, 40, 79v, 86v, 91v, 101v, 109v, 121v, 133v, 145v, 160v, 170v, 178v, 183v, 187v, 188v, 193v, 195v, 205v, 207v, 212v, 214v and 216v have not been scanned but are transcribed (secondary information).
- Pages 188[G]-200[G] are by Professor Griffith and the originals are kept in the Egypt Exploration Society in London; no photocopies nor scans exist in the Griffith Institute.
- Pages 217-223 are by R. W. P.; they are (not exact) copies of one of Petrie's letters.
- Some pages are misnumbered (page numbers repeated or in wrong order).
- The transcription follows the correct order of all the pages. Problems with the numbering system are indicated in the notes.
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Related units of description
- Related correspondence, object and object distribution notes, in Lucia Gura Archive, Egypt Exploration Society.
- http://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/excavations/1884-85-naukratis (accessed 21/03/2018).
Publication note
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Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Naukratis I: 1884-5 (1886) (OEB 147113) http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/petrie1888 (accessed 21/03/2018).
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Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Seventy years in archaeology [1931], 53-62 (OEB 147191).
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Drower, Margaret S., Flinders Petrie: a life in archaeology (1985), 87-92 (OEB 29381).
Notes area
Note
- The journal has been transcribed by François Leclère and Alexandra Villing; Manon Schutz and the Griffith Institute Team have proofread it and prepared it for publication on this website.