File Petrie MSS 1.7 - Petrie Journal 1887 to 1888 (Medinet el-Faiyum and Hawara)

126 pages

• Journal letters.
• December 5, 1887, through to May 12, 1888.
• Handwritten.
• Petrie begins the season excavating in the temple of Sobek at Medinet el-Faiyum, then moves on to Hawara where he surveys the pyramid, as well as finding many mummy-portraits from the Roman Period cemetery there.
• Main sites: Medinet el-Faiyum and Hawara.
• Other sites: Byahmu (Biyahmu), Medinet el-Gurob (Ghurab; Gourob).

Some pages have split along the folded edges, these have been housed in glassine envelopes.

• Related correspondence, object and object distribution notes, in Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London.
• http://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/excavations/1888-89-medinet-el-faiyum (accessed 21/03/2018).
• http://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/excavations/1888-89-hawara (accessed 21/03/2018).

• Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Hawara, Biahmu and Arsinoe (1889) (OEB 147074) http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/petrie1889 (accessed 21/03/2018).

• Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Seventy years in archaeology [1931], 81-9 (OEB 147191).

• Drower, Margaret S., Flinders Petrie: a life in archaeology (1985), 130-41 (OEB 29381).

• Drower, Margaret S. (ed.), Letters from the desert: the correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie (2004), 66-7 (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.