Sir William Flinders Petrie (1853-1942)
BritishWilliam Flinders Petrie & Amelia Edwards
Sir William Flinders Petrie (1853-1942)
British| "Layard and Newton and Schliemann had begun to dig up great things, but the observation of small things, universal at present, had never been attempted. There was only a single plate of pottery published in Lepsius . . . and that was almost entirely wrong in dating. . . . The science of observation, of registration , of recording, was yet unthought of; nothing had meaning unless it were an inscription or a sculpture. A year's work in Egypt made me feel it was like a house on fire, so rapid was the destruction going on. My duty was that of a salvage man, to get all I could, quickly gathered in , and then when I was sixty I would sit down and write it up." W. F. Petrie, Seventy Years in Archaeology (New York: Greenwood Press, 1969), 20. |
Worked at Giza (1880's); Tanis 1884; Fayum 1887 (Hawara, Meydum, Lahun); Amarna 1891; Abydos 1899; Naqada; Naucratis
Many of the artifacts in his personal collection were donated by Petrie in 1913 to the University College, London
Worked also in Palestine and died in Jerusalem in 1942.
Hawara: Image of pyramid
Amemenhet III _12th Dynasty (1840-1790): Pyramid
Reconstruction of Petrie's interpretation of Hawara and Labyrinth in front
New reconstruction of Hawara and mortuary temple
Current project involving a reassessment of Petrie's work for reconstructing buildings at Hawara
Fayum Portraits (Roman/early Byzantine - 0-400 CE)
Kahun Street site plan
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Famous Finds: Funerary Statues of Rahotep and Nofret
