PETRIE MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCHIVE SUMMARY ISAD(G)
prepared by Campbell Price for ACCES 2011
1. Correspondence 2. Material related to publications 3. Material not obviously related to publications 4. Copies of Journals 5. Pocket diaries 6. Notebooks 7. Distribution Lists 8. Tomb cards 9. Bead corpus 10. Photographs and plate glass negatives 11. Drawings and paintings 12. Maps and Plans 13. Documents on sales and museum objects 14. Newspaper cuttings 15. Ephemera
Description of material
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Title Correspondence
Dates of creation of the material 1878-1942
Extent 20 files and 4 boxes
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942), and many others.
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Scope and content Letters between W.M.F. Petrie and Hilda Petrie, Baldwin Brown (), committee members of the British School of Archaeology, British Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, Walter Emery (1902-1971), Reginald Stuart Poole (1832-1895), Heinrich Brugsch (1827-1894), William Gell (), A.J. Arkell (1898-1980), W.Robertson Smith (Biblical anthropologist), W. Ridegway, Flaxman C.J. Spurrell (1842-1915), family, E.A.Wallis Budge, Amelia Edwards (1831-1892), G. Caton Thompson (1888-1985), Jacques de Morgan (1827-1924), Rev. Greville Chester (1830-1892), Kate Bradbury (), G. Guthrie Roger (), Howard Carter (1874-1939), Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836-1912), and others.
Index to the letters of W.M.F.P. in boxes marked 9 and 10 in cupboard, 1878-1942, index made c.1983-84.
Index to notes relating to various ‘personalities’ probably compiled by Margaret Drower from W.M.F.P.’s papers in preparation for her book, c. 1984-5
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
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Associated material Not known.
Publications M. Drower, Letters from the Desert: The Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie (Oxford, 2004).
Description of material
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Title Material related to publications
Dates of creation of the material
Extent Several filing cabinets and a bookcase
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942), and others.
Administrative and biographical history
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Notes, drawings, photographs, maps and plans, plates, extracts from and annotated proofs relating to many publications, some untitled. The following by Flinders Petrie can be identified:
Monographs 1891. Illahun, Kahun and Gurob, 1889-90. London: Nutt. 1907. Janus in Modern Life (Sociology Essays). London: Constable. 1934. Ancient Gaza IV. Tell el Ajjidl. London. 1938. Egyptian Architecture. London. 1939. The Making of Egypt. London: Sheldon Press. 1940. Wisdom of the Egyptians. London. 1953. Corpus of Proto-Dynastic Pottery: Thirty Plates of Drawings. London: Quarto. 1953. Ceremonial Slate Palettes. London
Articles 1902. ‘Weights and measures.’ Encyclopaedia Britannica (10th Edition), vol. 24, 478-91. 1917-18. ‘Ptolemy's Geography of Albion.’ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 52, ser. 5, vol. 4, 12-26.
1929. ‘The Egyptian Lily.’ Ancient Egypt 0.3, 65-73.
Also includes Catalogues of Egyptian Antiquities Found by Professor Flinders Petrie (and Students), published reports of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1894, 1903, 1905- 1907, 1909, 1928, 1931, 1933-1938, and copies of publications such as ‘Ancient Egypt’ and ‘Syro-Egypt’ produced by the British School of Archaeology.
Unpublished Ancient Egyptian Dress Lone Syrian Shore The Technical arts of Egypt Thought as a physical agent Ancient Egyptian Glazing Ancient Egyptian Glass ‘Some motives of life’ (c. 1937)
Notes on many topics, including: amulets, Badarian graves and sequence dates, beads, cylinders, First Dynasty hieroglyphs, flints, mirrors, musical instruments, pottery, price rises in Roman Empire, reliefs and metal objects from Armant (including register of finds), stelae of Uza-Ra, tools, various tombs, vessels, weights and measures.
Material relating to various sites, including: Abydos, Armant, Badari, Ballas, Gaza, Gurob, Hawara, Hammamiya, Haraga, Kahun/Lahun, Matmar, Meidum, Memphis, Nagada, Riqqa, Sedment, Tarkhan, Tell el-Amarna.
By others E. J. H. MacKay and M. A. Murray. 1952. City of Shepherd Kings, and Ancient Gaza V. London: Quarto. R. Mond and O.H. Myers. 1934. The Bucheum. London.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
Related units of description None.
Associated material Not known.
Publications E. Uphill, ‘A bibliography of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942)’, JNES 31, 356-379.
Description of material
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Title Documents not obviously related to publications
Dates of creation of the material -
Extent Six drawers
2. Context
Name of creator
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Manuscript notes and lecture notes. Subjects include: The Bible, origins of the Book of the Dead, artefacts in the British Museum, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, civil titles, use of colours, finance in ancient Egypt, funeral furniture, Hawara portraits, Herodotus, hieroglyphs, legal systems in ancient Egypt, measures and weights, patination, Petrie collection, proportion, skulls, Syrian expedition (1934-37).
Manuscript notebooks owned by Margaret Murray and Margaret Drower.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
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Associated material Not known.
Publications
Description of material
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Title Copies of journals
Dates of creation of the material 1880-1928.
Extent
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942), and others.
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Scope and content Copies of W.M.F.P.’s journals consisting of typescript notes, photocopies of letters and hand-written journals. Originals kept in Griffith Institute, Oxford.
1880-1881 Gizeh, 1881-1882 Gizeh and the Nile, 1882-1883 (missing), 1883-1884 Wady Tumilat, Tanis (Zoan). 1884-1885, Naukratis 1885-1886, Naukratis, Nebesha, Defeneh 1886-1887, The Nile, Dahshur 1887-1888, Biahmu, Hawara, 1888-1889, Gurob, Kahun, Illahun 1889-1890, Kahun, Gurob and Jaffa (Tellhesy) 1890-1891, Medum, Greece, Italy 1891-1892, Amarna, 1893-1894, Coptos 1894-1895, Nagada (missing) 1895-1896, Thebes
1896-1897, Behneza (Beni Mazar) 1897-1891, Dendereh 1898-1899, Dechneh, How(Hu), Luxor, Abydos, Hu, Saqqara. 1898-1899, How, Thebes, 1899-1900, Abydos, 1901-1903, Abydos 1903-1904, Ehnasieh 1904-1905, Sinai: Maghara and Berabit 1905-1906, Tell el Yehudia, Tell er Retabeh 1906, Gizeh 1907, Rifeh 1908, Memphis 1909, Thebes, Memphis, Medum 1910, Medum, Memphis, Medinet el Fayum 1911, Medinet el Fayum, Memphis 1912-13, Kafr Ammar Tarkkhan 1914, Lahun 1920, Lahun 1923, Qau, Hemamiah 1927, Tell Jemmeh, Gaza 1928, Tell Fara (Beth Pelet)
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals Originals are held in the Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Existence of copies None.
Related units of description None.
Associated material Not known.
Publications
Description of material
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Title Pocket diaries
Dates of creation of the material 1881-1941
Extent 1 drawer
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942)
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Petrie’s pocket diaries.
1881 January 1-May 22 (8x14x.25cm) 1882, missing 1883-1884, November 5 1883 – July 17 1884, 9x12.5cm 1884-1885, November 5 1884 – June 24 1885, 11x16cm 1885-1886, November 5 1885 – November 3 1886, 10x15cm 1886-1887, missing 1887-1888, 13 November 1887 – 23 October 1888 12x7cm 1888-1889, 24 November 1888 – 3 November 1889 12x 7cm 1889-1890, 22 September 1889 - September 20 1890, 16x10cm 1890-1891, 21 September 1890 – 19 September 1891,16x10cm, note enclosed. 1891-1892, missing 1892-1893, 21 September 1892 - 18 November 1893, 16x10cm, includes list of servants wages. 1893-1894, 15 November 1893 - 14 November 1894, 16x11cm. 1894-1895, 14 November 1894 – 12 November 1895, 16x10cm
1896, 4 January 1896 – 31 December 1896, 16x10cm *the previous list made says there are entries for 1895 but I cannot find them!* 1896-1897 1897-1898, 18 October 1897 – 14 October 1898, 16x11cm 1898- 1899, 9 November 1898 – 26 April 1899, 16x 11cm 1899-1900, 1 January 1899 – 6 January 1900, 16x11cm, Hilda Flinders-Petrie’s diary, includes detailed list of items brought on excavation 1899-1900, 16 November 1899 - 12 September 1900, 16x10cm 1900- 1901, 4 November 1900 – 23 October 1901, 16x10cm 1901- 1902, 1 November 1901- 27 November 1902, 16x10cm 1902-1903, 19 November 1902 – 16 November 1903, 16x10cm 1903-1904, 19 November 1903 – 16 November 1904, 16x10cm 1904-1905, 17 November 1904 – 10 November 1905, 16x10cm 1905-1906, 15 November 1905- 13 November 1906, 16x10cm 1906-1907, 18 November 1906 – 17 November 1907, 16x10cm 1907-1908, 14 November 1907 – 11 November 1908, 16x10cm 1908- 1909, 19 November 1908 – 17 November 1909, 16x10cm 1909- 1910, 18 November 1909 – 16 November 1910, 12.5x8cm 1910- 1911, 29 November 1910 – 14 November 1911, 16x10cm 1911-1912, 21 November 1911- 20 November 1912, 16x10cm 1912- 1913, 21 November 1912 – 20 November 1913, 16x10cm 1913- 1914, 20 November 1913- 19 November 1914, 16x10cm 1914-1915, 19 November 1914 – 18 November 1915, 16x10cm 1916, 1 January 1916 – 30 December January 1916, 16x10cm 1917, 1 January 1917 - 31 December 1917, 16x10cm 1918-1919, 3 January 1918 – 1 January 1919, 14x7cm 1919, 1 January 1919 - 16 December 1919, 12x8cm 1919-1920, 18 November 1919 - 15 December 1920, 1920-1921, 16 November 1920 –14 November 1921, 10x7cm 1921- 1922, 15 November 1921 – 13 November 1922, 10x7cm 1922-1923, 27 November 1922 – 24 November 1923, 10x7cm 1923-1924, missing 1924-1925, 17 November 1924 – 14 November 1925, 10x7cm 1925-1926, [15 November 1925] –13 November 1926, 10x7cm 1926-1927, 14 November 1926 – 11 November 1927, 10x7cm 1927-1928, missing 1928-1929, 5 November 1928 – 3 November 1929, 10x7cm 1929 – 1930, 27 November 1929 – 26 October 1930, 10x7cm 1930 –1931, 24 October 1930 – 22 October 1931, 14x8cm 1931-1932, 23 October 1931 - 20 October 1932, 14x8cm 1932 - 1933, 1 November 1932- 30 November 1933, 14x8cm 1934, 1 January 1934—31 December 1934, 15x8cm 1935, 1 January – 31 December 1935,15x8cm 1936, 1 January – 31 December 1936,15x8cm 1937 -1938, 1 January - 2 January 1938,15x8cm 1938, 1 January– 28 December 1938,15x8cm 1939, 1 January – 30 December, 15x8cm 1940, 1 January – 24 June 1940, 14x8cm 1941, 27 December 1940 – 20 September 1941,10x7cm, Hilda Flinders-Petrie’s diary.
PMA/WFP1 9/2(1) List possibly made in the 1960s. Some diaries have gone missing since the list compiled.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
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Associated material Not known.
Publications
S. Quirke, 2010. Hidden Hands. Egyptian workforces in Petrie excavation archives, 1880–1924. London: Duckworth
Description of material
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Title Notebooks
Dates of creation of the material
Extent 3 drawers
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942)
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Immediate source of acquisition
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Notebook lists. Lists, index Naqada, Ballas, Diospolis.
Notebooks (duplicates)
List of notebooks, c.1894.
Microfiche of Petrie Notebooks 1-148
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
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Associated material Not known.
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Description of material
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Title Distribution Lists
Dates of creation of the material 1885-1949
Extent 2 drawers
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942) and others
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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1885-1894 1894, Koptos 1895, Naqada 1896, Ramesseum and Six Temples 1897, Deshasheh 1898, Dendereh Hierakonpolis 1899, Diospolis Parva Fayum Deir El Bahri 1900, Abydos 1901, Abydos Beyt Khalif, Mahasna 1902, Abydos 1903, Abydos (Osireion) 1904, (Abydos) Ehnnasya, Buto, Saqqara (Gurob) (Deir El Bahri) (Oxyrhynchus) 1905, Saqqara, Serabit, Maghareh 1906, Hyksos & Israelite cities 1907, Gizeh & Rifeh 1908, Athribis, Memphis
1909, Qurneh, Memphis 1910, Meydum, Memphis 1911, Hawara, Gerzeh, Memphis, Labyrinth-Gerzeh & Magzuneh Missing? 1913, Iarkhan, Riqueh, Memphis 1914, Lahun, Harageh 1915-20 1921 (& 1920), Lahun & Sedment 1922, Abydos, Oxyrhyncus 1925, Qau-El-Kebit 1924, Qau & Hemamieh 1925, Badari, Fayum 1926, Badari, Fayum 1927, Gerar [1930], Qau & Mostagedda 1938-40, Armant 1931-1934, (Ancient) Gaza.
Duplicate distribution lists 'Moss & Burney', distribution of objects in Petrie Publications. [1949?]
Distribution lists of objects in publications, includes top copies with museum numbers, n.d.
Distribution list relating to Rochdale, n.d.
Copy of Egyptian Exploration Society (E.E.S.) distribution lists to University College, London for Nebesheh, Defenneh and Tell el Amarna, n.d.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Access conditions This material has been digitised as is heavily used. See also the information on the Digital Egypt website: http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/petriedigsindex.html
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
Description of material
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Title Tomb cards
Dates of creation of the material
Extent 3 drawers
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942) and others
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Tomb cards from Qau and Tarkhan.
Tomb cards from Harageh, Gurob, Gerzeh, Medum, Sedment.
Includes a list of Petrie tomb cards and other notes.
Microfiche of copies of Tomb Cards
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
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Associated material Not known.
Publications
Description of material
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Title Bead Corpus
Dates of creation of the material
Extent I card index box, I volume
2. Context
Name of creator N. Shiah
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Manuscript of Ph.D. thesis by N. Shiah on Ancient Egyptian beads, 1946.
Corpus consists of index cards indicating number, form, colour, material, decoration, provenance, references, use and date, also includes drawing of object.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
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Associated material Not known.
Publications
Description of material
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Title Photographs and plate glass negatives
Dates of creation of the material -
Extent 12 drawers and a filing cabinet
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942), Margaret Murray (1863-1963), Veronica Setton-Williams (1910-1992), and others.
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Subjects of photographs include: Abydos, Amelia Edwards, Badari, Carl Pape, Dendera, Deshasheh, Edfu, the Egyptian Museum, excavation, flint, Giza, the Great Pyramid, Greece, Hamamia, Jack Ellis, local workers, Luxor temple, Memphis, mummies, the Nile, Palestine, papyrus, the Petrie family, Philae, plaques, portraits of locals, pottery, pyramids, Qau, rural scenes, Saqqara, scarabs, sculpture, seals, Serabit el Khadem, shabtis, Sheikh Zoweyd Tell, Sinai, Syria, Tell El Amarna, Tell El Yehudiyeh, tombs at Thebes, the tomb of Tutankhamun, ‘Mackay’s Illustrations to Tomb Decoration’ by Dr. Ernest John Mackay, Wellcome Collection, and many others of unnamed sites, individuals and artefacts.
Subjects of negatives include: excavations in Sinai, sites and artefacts (some arranged by site) and many others.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
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Associated material Not known.
Publications
Description of material
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Title Drawings and paintings (not obviously relating to publications)
Dates of creation of the material -
Extent
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942), and others
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Immediate source of acquisition
Related documentation
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Subjects include: amulets, beads, cylinders, Daci-dorian designs in Egypt, ‘Deir of St. John’, Grenfell’s impression of scarabs, hieroglyphs, the Hilton Price collection, material from Syria, mirrors, Palaeolithic flint, papyri, pot marks, pottery (from Balabish, Tarkhan), predynastic drawings of ships, pyramid of Dahshur, rock art, seals, Valley of the Kings/Queens, vessels, (temple of Osiris, Abydos),
Material from: Abadiya, Crete, Dashesha, Deffeneh (Qasr), Elephantine, El-Kab, Hawara, Italy, Khallara, Memphis, Mostagadda, Nagada, Naucratis, Qurna, Tell Jemmeh,
Index to drawings - many are missing, n.d.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
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Associated material Not known.
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Description of material
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Title Maps and plans (not obviously relating to publications)
Dates of creation of the material -
Extent
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942),
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Immediate source of acquisition
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Sites covered include: Athedon, Dahshur, Debba, Giza, Kosha, Meidum, Theban west bank, Wadi Guzzel, Wadi Halfa, and Dongola.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
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Associated material Not known.
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Description of material
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Title Documents on sales and museum objects
Dates of creation of the material -
Extent 7 files
2. Context
Name of creator W.M.F. Petrie (1853-1942),
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Register of packing and unpacking during World War II, 1939-1945.
Register of W.M.F.P.’s purchases in Egypt and London salerooms.
Register to temporary numbers on objects in Petrie Museum, n.d.
Annotated sale catalogues of various collections of primarily Egyptian material, 1906-1933.
Typescript lists of sale purchases by W.M.F.P., 1921-1922.
List of objects from the Wellcome Collection in the Petrie Collection; includes correspondence regarding the Wellcome Collection and copies of drawings of scarabs.
List of cupboard contents from the Burlington Exhibition, 1880-1920.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
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Title Newspaper cuttings
Dates of creation of the material -
Extent 4 files
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Name of creator
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Scope and content Newspaper clippings, many obituaries of W.M.F.P. some newspaper articles relating to excavations in Gaza and Sinai, c.1942.
Newspaper article from The Times relating to the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb, December 12 1922.
Scrapbooks of newspaper articles - all published material.
Packing material (newspaper) contains annotation ‘Dr M.A. Murray’ (Doctor Margaret Murray), n.d.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Description of material
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Title Ephemera
Dates of creation of the material -
Extent 3 drawers
2. Context
Name of creator Various
Administrative and biographical history See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995),
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Original Certificate of Honorary Doctorate awarded by the University of London to Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (W.M.F.P.), October 1933.
Poster, preliminary notice and program for ‘Lady Newnes’s Historical Egyptian Matinee in aid of the Friends of the Poor and the Flinders Petrie Excavations’ taking place at The London Hippodrome, 1930.
Numerous awards and diplomas awarded to W.M.F.P.
Manuscript cartoons relating to W.M.F.P. n.d.
Copy of W.M.F.P’s passport.
Envelope containing many copies of W.M.F.P.’s signature.
Obituaries, Curriculum Vitae, Petrie family genealogy.
System of arrangement Kept as received.
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Language of material English.
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Finding aids None.
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Location of originals These are originals.
Existence of copies None.
Related units of description None.
Associated material Not known.
Publications