Seventy Years In Archaeology

A Father in Egyptology

W.M. Flinders Petrie, Petrie

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136192234
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

First published in 2005. The working and intellectual biography of the great archaeologist Flinders Petrie, who was one of the founding fathers of Egyptology, will inevitably be of interest to all those involved with ancient Egypt. Here we have accounts of the research, the observations and the writing of some of the most important work conducted in Egyptology.

INDEX

A

Abadiyeh, 171.

Abu Ghaneym, 193.

Abydos, 172–187, 247.

Accuracy measured, 108.

— search for, 24.

Aegean pottery (in 1889), 101, 102, 108, 110, 141.

— — dating, 129.

Aird, Sir John, 154.

Ajjul, Tell el, 268.

Akhenaten, 137–141.

Alphabetic signs, 101, 109.

Altar with Offerings, 95.

Aly Suefy, 142, 156, 164, 165, 240.

Amarna excavations, 134.

Amasis, 68.

Amélineau, 172–6.

Amenemhat III, 82, 95, 148, 218, 220.

Amenhetep I, 180.

Amenhetep III, 111, 160, 208.

Amos, Prof. Sheldon, legist, 38, 59.

—, (Sir) Maurice, 91, 98.

Amsden, Dr., 232.

Amulets found, 96.

Ancient Egypt started, 231.

Anen-tursha, 101.

Animal catacombs, 169.

Antef sculptures, 148, 149, 182, 211.

Antiquities, export of, 22, 32.

Antony, H. M., 229.

Aohmes I, 183.

Aohmes II, 57, 63.

Apepa I, 268.

Aphrodite, a modern, 158.

Aphrodite temple, 56.

Apollo temple, 56.

Apries, Palace of, 213.

Apse chapels, 248.

Arabi and American advice, 41.

Arabs at Pyramids, 31.

Aramaic labels, 218.

— inscriptions, 248.

Arch used, 169.

Archaeological galleries decided on, 262, 267.

Archaeology, growth of, 19.

—, in it by nature, 8.

Arian controversy, 105.

Army agitator, 41.

Artemidoros, Ti. Claudius, 55.

Artemidoros mummy, 84.

Assault on cook, 243.

Assyrian arms, 160.

Aswan, copying at, 75.

— dam, 153.

Atet chamber, 216.

Athens visited, 129.

Athribis, near Sohāig, 209.

Ayrton, E. R., 185, 190.

B

Baboon of ivory, 109.

Bach, Henri, 242, 247, 250, 251.

Badarian civilisation, 252.

Ballas, 155.

Baring, Sir Evelyn (Lord Cromer), 120, 134, 136, 158.

Barrel vault, 169.

Barsanti, A. 140.

Bastinado used, 103.

Bead collection, 128.

Bead-hunting, 102.

Beadwork preserved, 99.

Beb, coffin of, 170.

Bedawieh, 46.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Dedication
• Foreword
• I. Preparation, 1853–1880
• II. The Pyramids, 1880–1882
• III. In the Delta, 1883–1886
• IV. Up the Nile, 1886–1887
• V. In the Fayum, 1887–1890
• VI. Palestine and Meydum, 1890–1891
• VII. Amarna, 1891–1892
• VIII. Koptos, Naqada, and Thebes, 1893–1897
• IX. Deshasheh, Dendereh, Hu, Abydos, 1897–1902
• X. Ehnasya, Sinai, Yehudiyeh, 1902–1906
• XI. Rifeh, Memphis, Qurneh, Hawara, 1906–1911
• XII. Tarkhan, Lahun, the War, 1911–1914
• XIII. Lahun, Sedment, Oxyrhynkhos, Qau, 1919–1926
• XIV. Egypt Over the Border, in the Negeb, 1926–1931
• Bibliography
• Index