Sir Flinders Petrie | |
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![]() Petrie in 1903 | |
Born | William Matthew Flinders Petrie 3 June 1853 |
Died | 28 July 1942 | (aged 89)
Resting place | Mount Zion Cemetery |
Known for | Proto-Sinaitic script, Merneptah Stele, pottery seriation[2] |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Egyptology |
Doctoral students | Howard Carter |
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA ( 3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts.[3] 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 Urlin.[4] Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele,[5] an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred.[6] 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.
Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and ceramic findings.[7] Petrie has been denounced for his pro-eugenics views; he was a dedicated believer in the superiority of the Northern peoples over the Latinate and Southern peoples.[8]
He has been referred to as the "father of Egyptian archaeology".[9]
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