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    Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri - Second Series, XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty
    Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri - Second Series, XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty
    Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri - Second Series, XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty
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    Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri - Second Series, XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty

    By Flinders Petrie

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    This early work by the British archaeologist, Flinders Petrie, was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri - Second Series, XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty' is a wonderful collection of stories circulating in ancient Egypt. William Matthew Flinders Petrie was born on 3rd July 1853 in Kent, England, son of William Petrie and Ann née Flinders. He showed an early interest in the field of archaeology and by his teenage years was surveying local Roman monuments near his family home. Flinders Petrie continued to have many successes in Egypt and Palestine throughout his career, most notably, his discovery of the Mernepte stele, a stone tablet depicting scenes from ancient times. His excellent methodology and plethora of finds earned him a Knighthood for his services to archaeology in 1923.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 18, 2016
    ISBN9781473379077
    Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri - Second Series, XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty

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      Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri - Second Series, XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty - Flinders Petrie

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      EGYPTIAN TALES

      XVIIIth To XIXth Dynasty

      Second Series

      Second Edition

      TRANSLATED FROM THE PAPYRI

      EDITED BY

      W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE

      ILLUSTRATED BY

      TRISTRAM ELLIS

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      THE QUEEN’S TRIAL

      Contents

      Flinders Petrie

      PREFACE

      XVIIITH DYNASTY: THE TAKING OF JOPPA

      CLOSE OF THE XVIIITH DYNASTY: THE DOOMED PRINCE

      XIXTH DYNASTY: ANPU AND BATA.

      XIXTH DYNASTY, PTOLEMAIC WRITING SETNA AND THE MAGIC BOOK

      Flinders Petrie

      William Matthew Flinders Petrie was born on 3rd July 1853 in Kent, England, son of William Petrie and Ann Flinders. The young Flinders Petrie was educated at home in a devout Christian household due to his father being a member of the Plymouth Brethren.

      He showed an early interest in the field of archaeology and by his teenage years was surveying local Roman monuments near his family home. This enthusiasm resulted in a visit to Egypt in 1880 to study the great Pyramid at Giza, where his analyses were the first to apply observation and logic to investigate how the pyramids were constructed. His meticulous accuracy in measurement still provides a considerable amount of the basic data still used today in the study of the pyramid plateau.

      His impressive scientific approach to the field earned him the position of professor at University College London. This recognition secured Filnders Petrie the funds he needed for excavation projects, and in 1884 he returned to Egypt to continue his work.

      He would often have over 150 workmen on his digs but would choose to be the foreman of the operation himself. He was popular with his workers, and by reducing the pressure on them to make quick finds, they were able to toil more carefully and unearth small but significant artefacts that would otherwise have been lost or damaged.

      Flinders Petrie continued to have many successes in Egypt and Palestine throughout his career, most notably, his discovery of the Mernepte stele, a stone tablet depicting scenes from ancient times. He also developed new excavation methods which revolutionised large scale digging operations. He went on to produce a wealth of publications on his subject, including A Season in Egypt, 1887 (1888), Koptos (1896), Methods & Aims in Archaeology (1904), and many more. His excellent methodology and plethora of finds earned him a Knighthood for his services to archaeology in 1923.

      In 1896, Flinders Petrie married Hilda Urlin, with whom he had two children, John and Ann. After his retirement, he and Hilda moved to Jerusalem where they lived at the British School of Archaeology. He remained there until his death in July 1942.

      PREFACE

      AS the scope of the first series of these Tales seems to have been somewhat overlooked, a few words of introduction may not be out of place before this second volume.

      It seems that any simple form of fiction is supposed to be a fairy tale: which implies that it has to do with an impossible world of imaginary beings. Now the Egyptian Tales are exactly the opposite of this, they relate the doings and the thoughts of men and women who are human—sometimes very human, as Mr. Balfour said. Whatever there is of supernatural elements is a very part of the beliefs and motives of the people whose lives are here pictured. But most of what is here might happen in some corner of our own country to-day, where ancient beliefs may have a home. So far, then, from being fairy tales there is not a single being that could be termed a fairy in the whole of them.

      Another notion that seems to be about is that the only possible object of reading any form of fiction is for pure amusement, to fill an idle hour and be forgotten and if these tales are not as amusing as some jester of to-day, then the idler says, Away with them as a failure! For such a person, who only looks to have the tedium of a vacuous mind relieved, these tales are not in the least intended. But the real and genuine charm of all fiction is that of enabling the reader to place himself in the mental position of, another, to see with the eyes, to feel with the thoughts, to reason with the mind, of a wholly different being. All the greatest work has this charm. It may be to place the reader in new mental positions, or in a different level of the society that he already knows, either higher or lower; or it may be to make alive to him a society of a different land or age. Whether he read Treasure Island or Plain Tales from the Hills, The Scarlet Letter, Old Mortality, or Hypatia, it is the transplanting of the reader into a new life, the doubling of his mental experience, that is the very power of fiction. The same interest attaches to these tales. In place of regarding Egyptians only as the builders of pyramids and the makers of mummies, we here see the men and women as they lived, their passions, their foibles, their beliefs, and their follies. The old refugee Sanehat craving to be buried with his ancestors in the blessed land, the enterprise and success of the Doomed Prince, the sweetness of Bata, the misfortunes of Ahura, these all live before us, and we can for a brief half hour share the feelings and see with the eyes of those who ruled the world when it was young. This is the real value of these tales, and the power which still belongs to the oldest literature in the world.

      XVIIITH DYNASTY:

      THE TAKING OF JOPPA

      THERE was once in the time of King Men-kheper-ra a revolt of the servants of his majesty who were in Joppa; and his majesty said, Let Tahutia go with his footmen and destroy this wicked Foe in Joppa. And he called one of his followers, and said moreover, Hide thou my great cane, which works wonders, in the baggage of Tahutia that my power may go with him.

      Now when Tahutia came near to Joppa, with all the footmen of Pharaoh, he sent unto the Foe in Joppa, and said, "Be hold now his majesty, King Men-kheper-ra, has

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