This is the rating and price for 2V Flinders Petrie / Tufnel / Macdonald / Starkey / Harding Beth-Pelet 1930-1932 Antique British Egyptology & Archaeology Folios Fold-Out Plates Maps Diagrams Cemetery Tell Fara

Description : Title: Beth-Pelet Author: Eann MacDonald, Flinders Petrie - 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 artifacts. 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. [Courtesy Wikipedia], James Leslie Starkey - James Leslie Starkey (3 January 1895 – 10 January 1938) was a noted British archaeologist of the ancient Near East and Palestine in the period before the Second World War. The chief excavator of the first archaeological expedition to the important site of Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir) from 1932, Starkey was robbed and killed by Arab bandits near Bayt Jibrin on a track leading from Bayt Jibrin to Hebron. Issa Battat, a rebel commander from the ad-Dhahiriya area who led a rebel unit during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the British, was held responsible by the British authorities for Starkey's killing. Battat was later killed in an ambush by British forces in May 1938. Starkey is buried in Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion, Jerusalem. [Courtesy Wikipedia], Lankester Harding, Olga Tufnell - Olga Tufnell was a British archaeologist who assisted on the excavation of the ancient city of Lachish in the 1930s. She had no formal training in archeology, but had worked as a secretary for Flinders Petrie for a number of years before being given a field assignment. Olga then went on to join James Leslie Starkey in the expedition to find Lachish in 1929 and remained part of the team for the following seasons. When Starkey was killed in 1938, the team finished the season then closed the site. Olga volunteered to write up the report of the dig and spent the following twenty years researching and writing up the majority of the excavation report. Olga's work has been regarded as the pre-eminent source book for Palestinian archeology. Once the report was published, she turned her attention to cataloguing scarabs and other seals. [Courtesy Wikipedia.] Publisher: British School of Archaeology in Egypt / Bernard Quaritch City: London Year: 1930-1932 Binding Style: Hardcover Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes Width: 10.25 Height: 12.5 Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a scarce complete two-volume set of this work, with the first volume containing Tell Fara by Petrie plus a chapter by Tufnel, and the second volume containing Prehistoric Era by MacDonald as well as Beth-Pelet Cemetery by Starkey and Harding. The first volume is bound in half-cloth with printed paper covers and stamped gilt lettering to the spine. The second volume is bound in marbled paper covers, with a leather backstrip. Both volumes show moderate external rubbing and toning, heaviest at the edges. The second volume shows some loss to the lower third of the spine cover. The bindings are solid. The pages and plates show mild age toning and scattered light to moderate foxing, particularly in the first volume. The first volume includes 71 plates, the second includes 96. There are several fold-outs. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $10.50
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