This is the rating and price for Flinders Petrie Tanis 1885/1888 Antique British Egyptology & Archaeology Plates Plans Nebeshel Defenneh Murray Griffith Exploration Fund, 1904

Description : Title: Tanis Author: Alexander Stuart Murray - Alexander Stuart Murray (8 January 1841 – March, 1904) was a Scottish archaeologist. He was known for excavations on Cyprus. [Courtesy Wikipedia], 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. [Courtesy Wikipedia], Frances Llewellyn Griffith - Francis Llewellyn Griffith (27 May 1862 – 1934) was an eminent British Egyptologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Griffith worked as a student for The Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) (later known as the Egypt Exploration Society), a society established in 1882 by Amelia Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole. This society funded excavations in Egypt and provided opportunities for student apprentices to learn how to excavate and give aspiring Egyptologists a chance to publish their findings. Griffith was urged by his professor to write to Flinders Petrie, an Egyptologist working for the EEF, to see if he could serve as an assistant. He could not afford to finance himself, and Petrie and Edwards were able to convince the EEF to fund Griffith through a scholarship. Griffith trained under Flinders Petrie at the Fund’s Naukratis excavation. He also presented reports on Tell Nebesheh and Tell Gemayemi during one of the Egypt Exploration Fund early annual meetings. It was in this report that he thanked Petrie, “I cannot conclude without expressing my deep obligations for Mr. Petrie for so freely opening to me the rich stores of method and experience which his unrivaled skill has accumulated.” After Petrie left the Egypt Exploration Fund, Griffith continued to work for the society under the direction of Edouard Naville. After the establishment of a post in Egyptology at Oxford, Griffith was appointed Reader in 1901. He was Professor of Egyptology at the university from 1924 until 1932 and died in 1934. By the terms of his will the Griffith Institute at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford was established in 1939. [Courtesy Wikipedia] Publisher: Trubner & Co. City: London Year: 1885/1888 Binding Style: Hardcover Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes Width: 10.25 Height: 13.25 Book Details: Tanis is a city in the north-eastern Nile delta of Egypt. It is located on the Tanitic branch of the Nile which has long since silted up. [Courtesy Wikipedia] Condition / Notes: This antique set of volumes make up the second and fourth memoirs of the Egypt Exploration Fund. The antique volumes have printed paper-covered boards with leather backstrips. There is moderate to heavy rubbing and toning to the exteriors, with some chipping/loss to the spine covers. The second volume has cracked hinges. The text blocks are solid. The pages show moderate age toning and scattered light foxing. Each volume contains numerous plates and diagrams. An additional hand-drawn map of ancient Egypt appears on the front pastedown of the first volume. 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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