The Flinders Petrie Papyri 3 Volume Set : With Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index

A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists.

A great many of his publications have been reissued in this series.

In the 1890s, the Irish scholar Sir John Pentland Mahaffy (1839-1919) took the lead on the considerable task of cataloguing, transcribing and commenting on the Greek papyri found by Petrie in mummy cartonnage on recent digs in Egypt.

This three-volume collection is the result. The texts, comprising private correspondence, legal records, petitions and many other types of document, reveal a great deal about life in Egypt in the third century BCE.

Volume 1 (1891) contains thirty autotype reproductions of key examples.

Volume 2 (1893) contains eighteen reproductions, while Volume 3 (1905), largely the work of J.

G. Smyly, contains seven autotypes in addition to a review by Mahaffy of the entire project and its scholarly reception.