Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt (1910) - Softcover

Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders

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9780766128347: Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt (1910)

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ISBN 10: 0766128342 ISBN 13: 9780766128347

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co, 2003

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Book Description:

In this 1909 handbook, prolific Egyptologist W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) examines a sample of Egyptian art from the prehistoric period to the Roman era. He discusses how political and geographical factors in Egypt influenced certain artistic responses. The text is richly illustrated with 140 examples.

About the Author:

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and 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 wife, Hilda Petrie. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and ceramic findings.

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