Flinders Petrie
British Egyptologist (1853-1942) · United Kingdom · Academics · Died at 89
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Something wrong?Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts.
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Flinders Petrie by Philip Alexius de Laszlo, 1934 (detail)
The distinctive black-topped Egyptian pottery of the Predynastic period associated with Flinders Petrie's Sequence dating system, Petrie Museum
A photograph Petrie took of his view from the tomb he lived in located in Giza, 1881!["One of the finest" reliefs Petrie found in Koptos was this ithyphallic representation of Min with Senureset I. Prudery toward erect representations got in the way of photography and exhibition of the city's artifacts in Victorian times into even the 1980s. Here, then-assistant Margaret Murray covered the member for Petrie's photograph. Some items were totally omitted from the initial record to protect sensibilities, which can lead to problems of provenance for archaeological phalloi.[17]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Mincensored.jpg/500px-Mincensored.jpg)
"One of the finest" reliefs Petrie found in Koptos was this ithyphallic representation of Min with Senureset I. Prudery toward erect representations got in the way of photography and exhibition of the city's artifacts in Victorian times into even the 1980s. Here, then-assistant Margaret Murray covered the member for Petrie's photograph. Some items were totally omitted from the initial record to protect sensibilities, which can lead to problems of provenance for archaeological phalloi.[17]
The Famine Stela inscription on Sehel Island in the Nile![A second performance was given on 25 April 2024.[27]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Flinderella.jpg/500px-Flinderella.jpg)
A second performance was given on 25 April 2024.[27]
Petrie's headstone in the Protestant Cemetery, Jerusalem (2009)Awards
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Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his Irish-born wife, Hilda Urlin. Some consider his most famous discovery that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. Undoubtedly at least as important is his 1905 discovery and correct identification of the character of the Proto-Sinaitic script, the ancestor of almost all alphabetic scripts.
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