T. Eric Peet
Appearance
Thomas Eric Peet (1882, Liverpool – 22 February 1934) was an English Egyptologist.
Biography
Peet's parents were Thomas and Salome Peet. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and at Queen's College, Oxford. From 1909 onwards he conducted excavations in Egypt for the Egypt Exploration Fund. From 1913 to 1928 he was Lecturer in Egyptology at Manchester University, though he also saw service in World War I as a Lieutenant in the King's Regiment (Liverpool). From 1920 to 1933 he was Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. In 1933 he was appointed Reader in Egyptology at the University of Oxford. The Queen's College, Oxford houses the University's Egyptology library, and it is named the Peet Library in his honour.
Works
- The Stone and Bronze Ages in Italy and Sicily, 1909
- Rough Stone Monuments and their Builders, 1912
- The Mayer Papyri, 1920 (see also Mayer Papyri)
- Cemeteries of Abydos (in collaboration), vols. 1-3
- The Inscriptions of Sinai (in collaboration), 1917
- Egypt and the Old Testament, 1922
- The Rhind mathematical papyrus, 1923[1] (see also Rhind Mathematical Papyrus)
- The Great Tomb-Robberies Of The Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty, 1930 (see also Abbott Papyrus)
- A comparative study of the literatures of Egypt, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, 1931 (Schweich Lectures for 1929)
- "To whom should I speak today."
References
- ^ Smith, David Eugene (1924). "Peet's Translation of the Rhind Papyrus". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (9): 557–559.
- Who was who 1929-1940, 1941
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- 1882 births
- 1934 deaths
- Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
- King's Regiment (Liverpool) officers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- English Egyptologists
- People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby
- Academics of the University of Liverpool
- Academics of the University of Manchester
- Fellows of The Queen's College, Oxford
- People from Crosby, Merseyside