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The Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9781108065771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. In this 1909 handbook, ranging in coverage from the prehistoric period to the Roman era, he examines a sample of the work of Egyptian painters, sculptors and diverse craftsmen, touching on such topics as statuary, architecture, jewellery, pottery and textiles. Beginning with a discussion of the meteorological, religious and political factors that influenced Egyptian artistic responses, the book contains 140 illustrations of the most striking works...
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. In t...
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Ancient Gaza: Volume 1
ISBN: 9781108066082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. Now reissued in two volumes are the four excavation reports, published between 1931 and 1934, covering his extensive dig at Tell el-Ajjul in Palestine. The reports scrupulously record the finds of artefacts dating from the Copper Age and extending to the Hyksos period. Descriptions of the working party's struggles against malaria and the elements highlight Petrie's devotion to his work. Volume 1 combines the first two reports, first published in...
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. Now ...
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Egyptian Decorative Art: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution
ISBN: 9781108065801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. He published these carefully illustrated lectures in 1895. Exploring the ancient Egyptians' passion for decoration, he demonstrates his view that the elaborate use of hieroglyphs and design 'made the Egyptian the father of the world's ornament'. Petrie describes and illustrates the four main areas of decoration: the geometrical use of lines, spirals and curves; the representation of natural images such as feathers and flowers; the...
Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of arc...
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178,41 |
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Roman Portraits and Memphis IV, Tarkhan I and Memphis V, Tarkhan II
ISBN: 9781108066167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. The diversity of his work is revealed in these three excavation reports, reissued here together but originally published separately in 1911, 1913 and 1914. The first, an important resource on mummy portraits, records significant discoveries made during renewed work on the Roman necropolis at Hawara. Continued excavations at Memphis are also described. Petrie's work at Tarkhan, where he excavated numerous tombs, is written up in the second and third...
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. The ...
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265,05 |
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Egyptian Tales: Volume 1: Translated from the Papyri
ISBN: 9781108065702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Although some of Egypt's most important archaeological finds were made in the late nineteenth century, at a time when historical fiction was popular, the literature of Egypt had reached very few English readers. Aiming to bring ancient Egypt to life in the public imagination, eminent archaeologist W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) published in 1895 this two-volume collection of original stories, accompanied by illustrations and helpful contextualising comments. The six stories of Volume 1 include elements of both fantasy and historical fact, spanning the period from the court of Khufu during...
Although some of Egypt's most important archaeological finds were made in the late nineteenth century, at a time when historical fiction was popular, ...
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Koptos, Qurneh
ISBN: 9781108066143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. This single-volume reissue brings together two of his well-illustrated excavation reports. The first, originally published in 1896, covers the work undertaken in 1893 4 at Koptos (modern-day Qift), a key settlement in Upper Egypt on the Nile's east bank. This includes a chapter on classical inscriptions by David George Hogarth (1862 1927). The second report, first published in 1909, discusses recent archaeological work around Qurna...
Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of arc...
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Ehnasya, the Labyrinth, Gerzeh and Mazghuneh
ISBN: 9781108066204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. This reissue brings together two of the well-illustrated excavation reports that he prepared with collaborators. The first, originally published in 1905, documents his work at Ehnasya (or Herakleopolis Magna), ranging in its coverage from the twelfth-dynasty temple to the houses of the Roman period. The text includes material by C. T. Currelly (1876 1957) on the various cemeteries. The second report, from 1912, records the findings from a number of...
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. This...
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Illahun, Kahun and Gurob. Medum
ISBN: 9781108065733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. The two excavation reports now reissued here together were first published in 1891 and 1892 respectively, written in collaboration with other experts. They outline significant finds at the pyramids of Lahun and Meidum, and at Gurob and Kahun, notably the latter's cache of Middle Kingdom papyri. Petrie and his collaborators describe in detail how they came to make these discoveries, shedding light on developing archaeological practices used towards...
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. The ...
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Dendereh 1898
ISBN: 9781108067270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. This excavation report, first published in 1900, documents and illustrates the findings made at the cemetery of Dendera, until then neglected by archaeologists in favour of the more famous temple site. The work includes descriptions of the tombs and a chapter by Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862 1934) on the inscriptions. Also covered are the pottery, funereal furniture and animal catacombs. The discoveries date from the Old Kingdom right through to...
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. This...
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A History of Egypt: Volume 3, from the Xixth to the Xxxth Dynasties
ISBN: 9781108065665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942), whose pioneering methods made Near Eastern archaeology a much more systematic and scientific discipline. Many of his other publications are also reissued in this series. Britain's first professor of Egyptology from 1892, Petrie was...
Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time ...
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Syria and Egypt: From the Tell El Amarna Letters
ISBN: 9781108065795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. In the early 1890s, he carried out significant work at Tell el-Amarna, the site of the ancient capital of Akhetaten. The illustrated 1894 excavation report that he co-authored has also been reissued in this series, along with many of his other publications. Petrie played a notable part in the preservation of a number of cuneiform tablets that became known collectively as the Tell el-Amarna letters. In this 1898 work, he presents summaries of the...
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. In t...
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The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties
ISBN: 9781108066129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. His meticulous recording of artefacts and his sequence dating of pottery types found in Egypt and Palestine made Near Eastern archaeology a more rigorous and scientific discipline. This fully illustrated follow-up report of 1901 on the royal tombs at Abydos, capital of Upper Egypt, covers the early dynastic period (c.3100 c.2700 BCE). Petrie gives detailed descriptions of eight tombs and the associated finds. A chapter on the inscriptions is...
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. His ...
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Methods and Aims in Archaeology
ISBN: 9781108065979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. In this short but classic work of 1904, he explains his vision for the young science of archaeology. Petrie outlines his processes and goals for an excavation, offering advice on how to manage workers drawn from the local population as well as guidance on creating a thorough record of a dig, the importance of which had not been fully appreciated by many contemporary archaeologists. His methods were highly influential in their more systematic and...
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. In t...
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The Religion of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9781616405243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Stonehenge: Plans, Descriptions and Theories.
ISBN: 9781241024673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,19 |
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Janus in Modern Life
ISBN: 9781023483070 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,46 |
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Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri
ISBN: 9781639239016 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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134,14 |
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The Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9781023322041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Egyptian Decorative Art
ISBN: 9781023440653 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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137,14 |
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Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri
ISBN: 9781639238910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,15 |