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Flinders Petrie
Sign in to saveAlso known as William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Sir Flinders Petrie, Flinders Petrie, W. M., Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Flinders Petrie, William Matthew, W. M. Flinders Petrie
British Egyptologist (1853–1942)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 47
Top works
- Egypt and Israel,
- Egyptian Tales Second Series
- Egyptian Tales First Series
- Religion of Ancient Egypt
- Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri - First Series Ivth to Xiith Dynasty
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Key facts
- Born
- William Matthew Flinders Petrie , ( 1853-06-03 ) 3 June 1853, Charlton , Kent , England
- Died
- 29 July 1942 (1942-07-29) (aged 89), Jerusalem , Mandatory Palestine
- Resting place
- Mount Zion Cemetery
- Known for
- Proto-Sinaitic script , Merneptah Stele , pottery seriation
- Spouse
- Hilda Urlin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1896 )
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society Huxley Memorial Medal (1906)
- Fields
- Egyptology
- Doctoral students
- Howard Carter
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Matthew
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Charlton
- Place of death
- Jerusalem
- Spouse
- Hilda Petrie
- Occupation
- translator
- Position held
- professor
- Employer
- University College London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Notable work
- Merneptah Stele
- Doctoral student
- Edward R. Ayrton
- Field of work
- Egyptology
- Image
- Flinders Petrie.jpg
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- place of burial
- Mount Zion Cemetery
- Commons category
- Flinders Petrie
- date of death
- 1942-07-28
- date of birth
- 1853-06-03
- member of
- Royal Society
- Commons Creator page
- Flinders Petrie
- writing language
- English language
- cause of death
- malaria
- name in native language
- William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Flinders Petrie, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
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
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA ((1853-06-03)3 June 1853 – (1942-07-29)29 July 1942), 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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