Gizeh and Rifeh
Gizeh and Rifeh

Author: W.M. Flinders Petrie

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2024-07-15

Total Pages: 170

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An important examination of Coptic monastery ruins producing many fragments of Coptic manuscripts. This is a facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1907 account of excavations at Gizeh and at Dier Rifeh in Upper Egypt, just south of Asyut. At Gizeh excavations focused on a cemetery lying on a ridge about 1 km south of the Great Pyramid while work at Rifeh extended from a well-known Coptic village for about 5 km southwards to beyond the village of Zowyeh, and mostly investigated several cemeteries in the plain of primarily XIth–XVIIth Dynasty date. The area contained numerous Coptic settlements and the ruins of Coptic monasteries at Balyzeh and Ganadleh were excavated, producing many fragments of Coptic manuscripts. A chronologically ordered account of the tombs excavated begins with those at Gizeh followed by Zaraby and Zowyeh and then Rifeh. Those at Rifeh produced around 150, previously rarely encountered, ‘soul houses’, being clay models of contemporary dwellings used as offering trays, which are discussed in detail. A classification of pottery is provided. Later burials were also excavated at the cemeteries close to Gizeh where three Demotic inscriptions and several cartonnages of papyri were recovered. The Demotic inscriptions and Coptic manuscripts are described with translations.

Gizeh and Rifeh, Heliopolis, Kafr Ammar and Shurafa
Gizeh and Rifeh, Heliopolis, Kafr Ammar and Shurafa

Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1108066100

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Reissued here together, these two illustrated excavation reports, published 1907-15, cover Flinders Petrie's archaeological work at several Egyptian sites.

Gizeh and Rifeh
Gizeh and Rifeh

Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie

Publisher:

Published: 1907

Total Pages: 130

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This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by School of Archaelogy in Egypt and Bernard Quaritch in London, 1907.

Gizeh and Rifeh
Gizeh and Rifeh

Author: W. M. Flinders Petrie

Publisher: Oxbow Classics in Egyptology

Published: 2024-07-15

Total Pages: 0

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Facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie's account of the excavation of Egyptian tomb cemeteries at Gizeh and Dier Rifeh and the ruins of two Coptic monasteries.

Gizeh and Rifeh
Gizeh and Rifeh

Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 9780856680373

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A reprint of Petrie's 1907 report on the work of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt at the cemeteries of Gizeh and Deir Rifeh.

Flinders Petrie
Flinders Petrie

Author: Margaret S. Drower

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1995-06-01

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 0299146235

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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.

Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt

Author: Annette Imhausen

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0691209073

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A survey of ancient Egyptian mathematics across three thousand years Mathematics in Ancient Egypt traces the development of Egyptian mathematics, from the end of the fourth millennium BC—and the earliest hints of writing and number notation—to the end of the pharaonic period in Greco-Roman times. Drawing from mathematical texts, architectural drawings, administrative documents, and other sources, Annette Imhausen surveys three thousand years of Egyptian history to present an integrated picture of theoretical mathematics in relation to the daily practices of Egyptian life and social structures. Imhausen shows that from the earliest beginnings, pharaonic civilization used numerical techniques to efficiently control and use their material resources and labor. Even during the Old Kingdom, a variety of metrological systems had already been devised. By the Middle Kingdom, procedures had been established to teach mathematical techniques to scribes in order to make them proficient administrators for their king. Imhausen looks at counterparts to the notation of zero, suggests an explanation for the evolution of unit fractions, and analyzes concepts of arithmetic techniques. She draws connections and comparisons to Mesopotamian mathematics, examines which individuals in Egyptian society held mathematical knowledge, and considers which scribes were trained in mathematical ideas and why. Of interest to historians of mathematics, mathematicians, Egyptologists, and all those curious about Egyptian culture, Mathematics in Ancient Egypt sheds new light on a civilization's unique mathematical evolution.

Amulets
Amulets

Author: Flinders Petrie

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1473359457

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This early work by the British archaeologist, Flinders Petrie, was originally published in 1914 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Amulets' is a scholarly work on the varieties of amulets found on archaeological digs. William Matthew Flinders Petrie was born on 3rd July 1853 in Kent, England, son of Wlilliam Petrie and Ann née Flinders. He showed an early interest in the field of archaeology and by his teenage years was surveying local Roman monuments near his family home. Flinders Petrie continued to have many successes in Egypt and Palestine throughout his career, most notably, his discovery of the Mernepte stele, a stone tablet depicting scenes from ancient times. His excellent methodology and plethora of finds earned him a Knighthood for his services to archaeology in 1923.