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PAPY
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Association Internationale de Papyrologues
Homepage of the AIP. Has links to 50 important papyrological sites.Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Archives and Collections
CLARYSSE Willy & VANDORPE Katelijn, Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Archives and Collections, Leuven, KUL & Oxford, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, http://lhpc.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/index.html
Offers an extensive database of papyrus collections and archives worldwide, with information concerning provenance, publication, contacts etc.
Oxyrhynchus online
A (the) website on the Oxyrhynchite papyri, including i.a. an online exhibition of the Oxyrhynchys excavations (one the most spectacular and productive findspot of ancient papyri) (Review) and the table of contents of the printed editions of the papyri..The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
Choose 'useful tools' for the gateway.Philodemus Online
A international project led by UCLA professor Blank to reassemble and re-edit the 'Philodemus' papyri discovered in the 1750's in a villa in Herculaneum. Philodemus was a first-century BCE Epicurean philosopher who lived and worked a long time in Italy. His work is known only from the charbonised papyri found in Herculaneum.
(The website needs a thorough cleaning up though; most of the (few) links are dead.)Centro di Studi Papirologici - Università di Lecce
Site of minor importance. Includes images of some Demotic Papyri, unfortunately without transcription or translation.
****Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE DUKE PAPYRUS ARCHIVE !
The DDBDP is an electronic corpus of all Greek and Latin texts found on papyri, ostraca or wooden tablets which have been published in discrete volumes or in series. Currently the DDBDP contains all texts so published to 30 June 1996, representing over 5,000,000 words and nearly 500 volumes. The DDBDP is accessible in two forms:
- PHI 7 CD ROM may be purchased directly from the Packard Humanities Institute, 300 Second St. Suite 200, Los Altos, CA 94022.
- The updated version of the DDBDP may be accessed on line through the Perseus Project.
For a list of published papyri that have not (yet) been included see the Duke Papyrus Archive pages
In fact, the internetversion of the DDBDP is much more interesting than the cd-rom version, not only because the databank available at Perseus is kept up to date (under the aegis of the APIS project, cf. infra). The search facility available at Perseus is very flexible, allowing users not only to make multiple searche ('near', 'not near', 'then', 'or') but also to set geographical and chronological limits. The single most remarkable and important feature however of Perseus's DDBDP is that it allows users to search for 'lexemes', i.e. the uninflected and not conjugated forms of words. This possibility is not offered by the PHI 7 cd-rom. Moreover all words in every text have a morphological hyperlink allowing users to look up their uninflected and unconjugated form, which subsequently may be looked up in the Liddel and Scot Greek to English dictionary.
Marriage and Divorce Papyri of the Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish World
Every published Greek, Roman and Jewish marriage contract and divorce deed is collected here, from the 4th C BCE to the 4th C CE. Each text is presented in its original language, with references to English translations, other online texts, and online images of the papyrus. Some additional marriage contracts have been added which fall outside these boundaries, including a 2nd BCE Edomite marriage written on pottery, and a 5th C CE Jewish marriage contract written on vellum and a 6th C CE Samaritan Greek divorce deed. A few related texts have also been added which illustrate marriage laws.
*****Vindolanda Tablets Online
Vindolanda Tablets Online, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/
An exemplary online edition of the writing tablets discovered at Vindolanda.
The tablets database provides texts, translations (English), commentaries and new, large digital images of each tablet which can be examined close-up through a ‘zooming viewer.’ ... The online edition is based on volume II of the Vindolanda tablets, which superseded volume I. However some of the content of volume I remains important and is available on this site. For those using the site for research, the relationship between the published volumes and the online edition is described in more detail.
PHI 7 Duke Databank of Documentary papyri (DDB)
An electronic collection of published papyri and ostraka taken from about 500 individually published volumes, totalling about 5 million words. (exists also in an on-line version at the Perseus website). The DDB is available on the PHI 7 cd-rom, containing also a large number of inscriptions. For more information on the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri cf. supra.
AIP International Papyrus Archive
The AIP consists of over 4,500 photo (negatives) archive located at several places in the world . An online index is available at the Insstitute for Greek and Latin at Copenhagen University.
*****Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS)
Coordinated effort of the universities of Michigan, Duke, Columbia, Princeton, Berkeley, Yale and Brussels (ULB) to construct an on line database of their entire papyri collections, including the non published pieces. For the moment, the database contains basic information (including i.a. an English translation of over 3000 published (!) papyri, ostraca and other material from the Michigan Papyrus Collection and some Cornell Papyri. Images are available of 174 papyri. However, several other universities are currently putting their catalogues on line following the standards of APIS.Beinecke Papyrus Collection (Yale University)
Beinecke University houses a large collection of papyri. The entire catalogue is online (click here for the database) by the end of the summer of 2000 digitized images of all papyri should also be available. The effort is part of APIS.
The Carlsberg Papyri
Catalogue of the papyrus collection of the Carsten Niebuhr Institute at the university of Copenhagen.Copenhagen University Papyrus Collection (P. Haun)
The Insstitute for Greek and Latin at Copenhagen Universit has a small collection of ca. 400 papyri. All have been published and photo-negatives have been added to the AIP International Papyrus Archive.
Duke Papyrus Collection
(not to be confused with the Duke Databank of Documentary Papry, containing all published papyri, not just those of the Duke Papyrus Collection !)
The papyrus homepage of the special collections library at Duke University. Here you will find a good introduction to the collection and a search facility for the entire catalogue of the collection or the on line part of it (1,375 entries).Heidelberg: Griechischer Papyri der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung
Digitised photo archive of part of the Heidelberg papyrus collection.Princeton University Library - Papyrus Home Page
Princeton offers a descriptive inventory of its collection, containing a total of 1,529 papyri, 1,255 (!) of which unpublished. The collection will be included in the APIS project.Tebtunis Papyri (University of California Berkeley - The Bancroft Library)
The largest colletion of papyri in the USA containing over 21,000 fragments.A database is currently in progress, as part of the APIS project. Only about 500 papyri are already available.The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
Home page for the Michigan Collection. The page is a bit confusing. For the moment it is little more that an bypass to the APIS project, where you can now (March 2000) search approximately 2,500 records (with images) out of a total of ca. 7,000 inventory numbers.
Oxyrhynchus papyri.
Table of contents of all published papyri for Oxyrhyncus (subpage of the POxy website cf. also supra).
Check list of editions
The primary purpose of the Checklist of Editions of Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets is to provide for scholars and librarians a ready bibliography of all monographic volumes, both current and out-of-print, of Greek and Latin texts on papyrus, parchment, ostraca or wood tablets. Texts published in periodicals as journal articles are normally excluded, since they are regularly republished in successive volumes of Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten (SB), the volumes of which are included. Many volumes containing documentary texts publish literary and subliterary texts as well, and such volumes are of course included, together with volumes of the same series that are exclusively literary. No systematic attempt to include all exclusively literary and subliterary volumes has been made. Supplementary material - Corpora, Instrumenta, Series, etc. - has been added as seemed appropriate.
Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Aegyptens
The Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis aims to provide a complete searchable catalogue of all published papyri. At the moment nearly 50,000 entries are available that may be searched for date, subject, origin, place of publication, etc. Alternatively, the user may consult a chronologically ordered list of all papyri. The HGPA is an increasingly important research tool. (Click here for the Homepage of the Institut für papyrologie at the Ruprecht Karl Universität Heidelberg)
Click here for the BMERR review