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 This description is based on the General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G) 1. Identity statement Reference code n/a Location 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), Custodial history Immediate source of acquisition Related documentation 3. Content and structure 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. 4. Access and use Legal status Access conditions Copyright conditions Language of material English. Physical characteristics Finding aids None. 5. Allied materials area Location of originals These are originals. Existence of copies None. Related units of description None. Associated material Not known. Publications M. Drower, Letters from the Desert: The Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie (Oxford, 2004). Description of material This description is based on the General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G) 1. Identity statement Reference code n/a Location 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 Custodial history Immediate source of acquisition Related documentation 3. Content and structure Scope and content 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. 4. Access and use Legal status Access conditions Copyright conditions Language of material English. Physical characteristics Finding aids None. 5. Allied materials area 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 This description is based on the General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G) 1. Identity statement Reference code n/a Location 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), Custodial history Immediate source of acquisition Related documentation 3. Content and structure Scope and content 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. 4. Access and use Legal status Access conditions Copyright conditions Language of material English. Physical characteristics Finding aids None. 5. Allied materials area Location of originals These are originals. Existence of copies None. Related units of description None. Associated material Not known. Publications Description of material This description is based on the General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G) 1. Identity statement Reference code n/a Location 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), Custodial history Immediate source of acquisition Related documentation 3. Content and structure 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. 4. Access and use Legal status Access conditions Copyright conditions Language of material English. Physical characteristics Finding aids None. 5. Allied materials area 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 This description is based on the General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G) 1. Identity statement Reference code n/a Location 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), Custodial history Immediate source of acquisition Related documentation 3. Content and structure Scope and content 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 –