Petrie Palestinian Project

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.

Sparks, R.T. (2013). Fishing for meaning: Net weights, fishhooks and netting needles in mortuary contexts at Tell el-‘Ajjul. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 5 (2), 33-47.
Sparks, R.T. (2013). Flinders Petrie Through Word and Deed: Re-evaluating Field Techniques and their Impact on Object Recovery in British Mandate Palestine. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 145 (2), 143-159. doi:10.1179/0031032813Z.00000000049
Sparks, R.T. (2013). Publicising Petrie: Financing fieldwork in British Mandate Palestine (1926-1938). Present Pasts, 5 (2), 1-15. doi:10.5334/pp.56
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.

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