Petrie Palestinian Project

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This project has the following aims

To completely catalogue the Institute of Archaeology’s holdings of material in the Petrie Palestinian Collection and make it available online via the IoA collections website.
To research the current locations of all materials from Petrie’s excavations in British Mandate Palestine between 1926 and 1938 and provide an online guide to these resources.
To digitise Petrie’s field records from Tell el-‘Ajjul and Tell Fara, and make these available to researchers online.
To conduct research into Petrie’s field methods and practices, and reassess material from his excavations.

Laidlaw, S., Sparks, R.T. and P.J. Ucko. 2007. A Future for the Past: Petrie’s Palestinian Collection. This was the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Brunei Gallery in London.
Sparks, R.T. 2005. The Lost Loci of Tell el-‘Ajjul: Petrie’s Area C, PEQ 137.1, 23-29.

Currently working on the following publications:

Flinders Petrie Through Word and Deed: Excavating Palestine during the British Mandate Period
Shades of Significance: Net weights, fishhooks and netting needles in mortuary contexts at Tell el-‘Ajjul
Publicising Petrie: financing fieldwork in British Mandate Palestine
Conference paper planned for ASOR 2012 Annual meeting: Evaluating past practice as a guide to future use: the many degrees of provenance in Petrie’s Palestinian excavations

Funding was received at an early stage in this research from the Stockman Foundation

Project Leader:

Project Partners:

Simon Groom
Collaboration on the publication of some pottery from Tell el-‘Ajjul
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and New York
Discussions about a collaborative book on Tell el-‘Ajjul

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UCL Institute of Archaeology