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William Flinders Petrie

William Matthew Flinders Petrie

1853–1942 · United Kingdom

Egyptologist. Worked with John Linton Myres and James Rivers Barrington Stewart.

Life and work

  1. 1886–1899
    Letters to the British Museum (GR Original Letters 1886-7, 1889, 1890, 1898-9) record Cypriot finds from sites in Egypt.

    Tatton-Brown 2001, p. 179 n. 33

  2. 1890
    Published 'The Egyptian Bases of Greek History' (JHS 11, 1890, 271-7) dating Mycenaean stirrup-jars c. 1400-1050 BC from his Lahun, Kahun and Gurob finds, adding that he would not limit their range in Cyprus or elsewhere; used by the British Museum side as an Aegean/Cypriot dating argument.

    Tatton-Brown 2001

  3. 1894
    Myres, publishing his 1894 Cyprus tombs, says an electrum-mounted silver ring seal showing the king as Horus with a goddess is 'assigned by Prof. Petrie to the XXVIth Dynasty'.

    LarnacaMyres 1897

  4. 1896–1900
    Evans (1900) quotes Petrie's opinion that the gold pectoral from Enkomi Tomb 93 shows eight of nine pendant designs of Amenhotep IV's time and that a ring of Amenhotep IV (with Ptah) came from the same Enkomi cemetery; and his view that the sard scarab of Kourion Tomb 28 is very close to a Ramessu II scarab.

    EnkomiEvans 1900

  5. 1899
    Thanked by Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter 'for suggestions and corrections in detail' in the Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum; the catalogue cites his 1895 discovery of Libyan red polished and black punctured wares at Ballas and Naqada as a parallel to Cypriot Red Polished technique.

    NicosiaMyres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899

Connections

3 people
James Rivers Barrington S…John Linton MyresSir Arthur John EvansWilliam Flinders Petrie
Colleagues

Colleagues & contacts

On Ancient Cyprus

2 pages

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  2. 2.J. L. Myres (1897). “Excavations in Cyprus in 1894”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 17, 134-173. Online
  3. 3.Arthur J. Evans (1900). “Mycenaean Cyprus as Illustrated in the British Museum Excavations”. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 30, 199-220. Online
  4. 4.J. L. Myres, M. Ohnefalsch-Richter (1899). A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
  5. 5.W. F. Petrie (1890). “The Egyptian Bases of Greek History”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 11, 271-277.