Author:William Matthew Flinders Petrie

←

William Matthew Flinders Petrie
(1853–1942)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item.

British egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "W. M. F. P."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "W. M. F. P."

Works[edit]

Researches on the Great Pyramid; or, Fresh connections: being a preliminary notice of some facts, etc. 1874 OCLC:81661470^{all editions}, OCLC:84594508^{all editions}
Inductive metrology; or, the recovery of ancient measures from the monuments (1875) OCLC:82697217^{all editions}, 1877 OCLC:5469808^{all editions}, OCLC:44635134^{all editions}
Tanis, OCLC:78942217^{all editions}, meta data indicates it was published by Egypt Exploration Fund with a date range 1880-1888; OCLC:3782656^{all editions} (1885-1888), OCLC:58446313^{all editions} (1885), OCLC:68884441^{all editions} (1888-89), OCLC:84702205^{all editions} (1889) (external scan)
Stonehenge: plans, description, and theories 1880 OCLC:5083857^{all editions}
On the mechanical methods of the ancient Egyptians (1883) OCLC:21308365^{all editions}
Pottery of ancient Egypt (1883) OCLC:21308371^{all editions}
The pyramids and temples of Gizeh (1883), OCLC:79807911^{all editions}
The arts of ancient Egypt, a lecture delivered before the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts. 1884 OCLC:21308383^{all editions}
On the mechanical methods of the ancient Egyptians. 1884 OCLC:78631620^{all editions}
The discovery of Naukratis (1885) OCLC:21308377^{all editions}
Kom Afrin (1885) OCLC:82117234^{all editions}
On the Geographia of Ptolemy (1885) OCLC:78778033^{all editions}
The weights of Naukratis (1885) OCLC:82487192^{all editions}
Naukratis (1886) OCLC:57033553^{all editions}, OCLC:25759430^{all editions}, OCLC:60702519^{all editions}, OCLC:370752^{all editions}, OCLC:79115504^{all editions}
- Part I: 1884–5 (external scan) OCLC:28130777^{all editions}
- Part II OCLC:61930468^{all editions}
Racial photographs from the Egyptian monuments (1887) OCLC:11487634^{all editions}
- Report of the Committee … appointed for the purpose of procuring … racial photographs from the ancient Egyptian pictures and sculptures OCLC:81060177^{all editions}. British Association for the Advancement of Science
Racial types from Egypt (1887) OCLC:65518425^{all editions}
A season in Egypt: 1887 (1888) OCLC:5663626^{all editions}, OCLC:56710761^{all editions}
Tanis, part II : Nebesheh (AM) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes) 1888, OCLC:66463088^{all editions}; OCLC:528385^{all editions}
Egyptian funereal cones (1888) OCLC:78285873^{all editions}
The treatment of small antiquities, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1888 OCLC:84457453^{all editions}
Grand tour : three thousand years ago (1888) OCLC:63574240^{all editions}
Weights and measures (1888) OCLC:43135365^{all editions}
Hand list for visitors to the collection of antiquities discovered in the Fayum, Egypt, by W.M. Flinders Petrie, 1889 : exhibited 16th Sept. to 5th Oct., 1889 OCLC:76966283^{all editions}
Hawara, Biahmu, and Arsinoe (1889) OCLC:65893804^{all editions}, OCLC:4952746^{all editions}, OCLC:82788806^{all editions}
Two hieroglyphic papyri from Tanis … , 1889 OCLC:476681^{all editions}
Historical scarabs: a series of drawings from the principal collections, 1889 OCLC:77860195^{all editions}
Ten year's digging Egypt, 1881-1891 OCLC:81022135^{all editions}
The Revolutions of Civilization, 1911
Neglected British History, Proceedings of the British Academy 1917 OCLC:56710867^{all editions}, OCLC:5470060^{all editions}

Articles in Popular Science Monthly[edit]

"Recent Years of Egyptian Exploration" in Popular Science Monthly, 56 (April 1900)

Unknown year of publication[edit]

Review of: Seventy years in archaeology … OCLC:84682291^{all editions}
The causes and effects of Egyptian geography OCLC:43161490^{all editions}
On new examples of Egyptian weights and measures OCLC:21308359^{all editions}
Notice of a casket of Amenhotep II. <XVIII. dynasty c. 1430 B.C.> in late Mr. A. H. Rhind's Egyptian collection, now in the Scottish national museum of antiquities. OCLC:80129686^{all editions}
Deshasheh OCLC:83707647^{all editions}
The rise of civilisation in Egypt OCLC:43151499^{all editions}
The art of Khuenaten OCLC:77842427^{all editions}
Historia de las naciones OCLC:46894251^{all editions}
Racial photographs from Egyptian monuments OCLC:85073213^{all editions}

Translations[edit]

Major collaborations[edit]

Descriptive sociology; or, groups of sociological facts, classified and arranged … 1873-1934 OCLC:42024663^{all editions}, OCLC:2872937^{all editions}
Études Égyptiennes 1888-1904 OCLC:74111266^{all editions}
Pollux' account of ancient coins 1881 OCLC:43201855^{all editions}

Contributions to EB9[edit]

"Weights and Measures," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (24) (1888)

Contributions to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica[edit]

"Abydos, Egypt," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Egypt," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Art and Archaeology)
"Pyramid," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Sinai," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (The Peninsula)
"Weights and Measures," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Ancient Historical)

Works about Petrie[edit]

Two Ancient Races, 1891 article
"Petrie, William Matthew Flinders," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Petrie, William Matthew Flinders," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1928.

The longest-living author of these works died in 1942, so these works are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.