Dave L Wrote:
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> I am needing a check on this reference:
>
> From the 1883 Egyptian Exploration Fund proposal:
> “In Saqqara, he would examine the peribolus wall
> of the Step Pyramid to see if it threw light on
> the date of the pyramid; this would take a week”
> (Drower 1985: 69).
>
> Is this page number correct and is this quote
> there?

Yes and yes; this passage is referring to Petrie's memorandum to Sayce and Poole on what he would like to do for a second expedition in 1883.

> I would like to own this biography but it costs a
> fortune!

Uhm, not sure why you say that. A good used copy (that is, with little use) can be acquired for as little as £17.50, while Amazon UK can give you a new copy for £21.37.

Considering that I've had to spend as much as £350 each for the 4 volumes of Calverley's The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos (1933-1958), I don't find £17-£20 for a book all that expensive.

Reference:

Drower, M. S. 1995. Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology. (2nd Ed.) Wisconsin Studies in Classics. R. D. De Puma and B. H. Powler. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom