Thomas Eric Peet

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). Frrom 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.

Works

*"The Stone and Bronze Ages in Italy and Sicily", 1909
*"Rough Stone Monuments and their Builders", 1912
*"The Mayer Papyri", 1920
*(in collaboration) "Cemeteries of Abydos", vols. 1-3
*(in collaboration) "The Inscriptions of Sinai", 1917
*"Egypt and the Old Testament", 1922
*"The Rhind mathematical papyrus", 1923
*"A comparative study of the literatures of Egypt, Palestine, and Mesopotamia", 1931 (Schweich Lectures for 1929)

References

*"Who was who 1929-1940", 1941

External links

*gutenberg|15590|name=Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders

*worldcat id|id=lccn-n87-823706