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). 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.

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 (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)