Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology

Margaret S. Drower

Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1 jun 1995 - 528 pagina's

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 1930s, 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 Petrie’s important contributions to the science of modern archaeology, such as orderly record-keeping of the progress of a dig and the use of pottery sherds in historical dating. Petrie's careful academic methods often pitted him against such rival archaeologists as Amélineau, 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.

Inhoudsopgave

• I The Flinders and the Petries: 3
• II The Making of an Archaeologist 185380: 13
• III The Pyramid Survey 188082: 34
• Delta Explorations 18836: 65
• V Up the Nile 18867: 105
• VI Pyramids and Portraits 18879: 127
• VII Interlude in Palestine 188990: 153
• VIII Tussles with M Grebaut 18902: 168
• IX University College London 18927: 199
• X Hilda 18968: 231
• XI Most Ancient Egypt 18991903: 249
• A Clash of Personalities 1903: 274
• XIII The British School 190611: 295
• XIV Amulets in the Soup 191114: 318
• XV The War Years 191419: 330
• XVI Egypt over the Border 191930: 348
• XVII Jubilee 193033: 377
• XVIII Lone Syrian Shore 19348: 398
• XIX Sunset in Jerusalem 193842: 418
• Notes and References: 439

Over de auteur

Margaret S. Drower (Mrs. C. Hackforth-Jones) has retired as a lecturer in ancient history at University College, London, where she was a reader in ancient history; she is now an honorary research fellow in the Departments of History and Egyptology. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, she has contributed to many books and BBC programs on the ancient Middle East.

Bibliografische gegevens

• Titel: Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology; Wisconsin Studies in Classics
• Auteur: Margaret S. Drower
• Uitgever: Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0299146235, 9780299146238
• Lengte: 528 pagina's