The Resource Flinders petrie: a life in archaeology
Flinders petrie: a life in archaeology
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- Summary
- Flinders Petrie has been called the "Father of Modern Egyptology" - and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archaeological methods. This fascinating biography of Petrie was first published to high acclaim in England in 1985. Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie's in the early 1930's, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of eighty-nine. Drower combines her first-hand knowledge with Petrie's own voluminous personal and professional diaries to forge a lively account of this influential and sometimes controversial figure. Drower presents Petrie as he was: an enthusiastic eccentric, diligently plunging into the uncharted past of ancient Egypt. She tells not only of his spectacular finds, including the tombs of the first Pharaohs, the earliest alphabetic script, a Homer manuscript, and a collection of painted portraits on mummy cases, but also of his important contributions to the science of modern archaeology, such as orderly record-keeping of the progress of a dig and the use of pottery shards in historical dating. Petrie's careful academic methods often pitted him against such rival archaeologists as Amelineau, who boasted he had smashed the stone jars he could not carry away to be sold, and Maspero and Naville, who mangled a pyramid at El Kula they had vainly tried to break into
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- xxiv, 500 pages
- Isbn
- 9780299146245
- Label
- Flinders petrie: a life in archaeology
- Title
- Flinders petrie: a life in archaeology
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Flinders Petrie has been called the "Father of Modern Egyptology" - and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archaeological methods. This fascinating biography of Petrie was first published to high acclaim in England in 1985. Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie's in the early 1930's, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of eighty-nine. Drower combines her first-hand knowledge with Petrie's own voluminous personal and professional diaries to forge a lively account of this influential and sometimes controversial figure. Drower presents Petrie as he was: an enthusiastic eccentric, diligently plunging into the uncharted past of ancient Egypt. She tells not only of his spectacular finds, including the tombs of the first Pharaohs, the earliest alphabetic script, a Homer manuscript, and a collection of painted portraits on mummy cases, but also of his important contributions to the science of modern archaeology, such as orderly record-keeping of the progress of a dig and the use of pottery shards in historical dating. Petrie's careful academic methods often pitted him against such rival archaeologists as Amelineau, who boasted he had smashed the stone jars he could not carry away to be sold, and Maspero and Naville, who mangled a pyramid at El Kula they had vainly tried to break into
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- UkLiU
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- Drower, Margaret S
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- Wisconsin studies in classics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Egyptologists
- Petrie, W. M. Flinders
- Label
- Flinders petrie: a life in archaeology
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-469) and index
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Content type MARC source
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- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- xxiv, 500 pages
- Isbn
- 9780299146245
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- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- Other physical details
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- Label
- Flinders petrie: a life in archaeology
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-469) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Extent
- xxiv, 500 pages
- Isbn
- 9780299146245
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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