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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809599403321

Autore

Drower Margaret S

Titolo

Flinders Petrie : a life in archaeology / / Margaret S. Drower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis. : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

0-299-14623-5

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 500 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Wisconsin studies in classics

Disciplina

932/.007202

B

Soggetti

Egyptologists - Great Britain

Excavations (Archaeology) - Egypt

Egypt Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in Great Britain in 1985.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-469) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Sources and Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Preface to the Second Edition -- I. The Flinders and the Petries -- II. The Making of an Archaeologist (1853-80) -- III. The Pyramid Survey (1880-82) -- IV. "Father of Pots": Delta Explorations (1883-6) -- V. Up the Nile (1886-7) -- VI. Pyramids and Portraits (1887-9) -- VII. Interlude in Palestine (1889-90) -- VIII. Tussles with M. Grebaut (1890-2) -- IX. University College, London (1892-7) -- X. Hilda (1896-8) -- XI. Most Ancient Egypt (1899-1903) -- XII. Naville and Petrie: A Clash of Personalities (1903) -- XIII. The British School (1906-11) -- XIV. Amulets in the Soup (1911-14) -- XV. The War Years (1914-19) -- XVI. Egypt over the Border (1919-30) -- XVII. Jubilee (1930-33) -- XVIII. Lone Syrian Shore (1934-8) -- XIX. Sunset in Jerusalem (1938-42) -- Notes and References.

Sommario/riassunto

Flinders Petrie has been called the "Father of Modern Egyptology" and was one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. Here Drower, a student of his in the 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, to his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt.