Classical Philology: Papyrology
Overview
On this page, you can find the best resources available to UB library users for the study of ancient manuscripts written on papyrus, ostraka, tablets, etc.
Introductions, Guides, & Checklists of Editions | Ancillae for Reading and Understanding Papyri | Journals | Online Resources
Introductions, Guides, and Checklists of Editions
La papirologia by Orsolina Montevecchi (2008)
This item is not currently available through UB Libraries, but interested UB users are encouraged to order it through Delivery+.
Checklist of editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic papyri, Ostraca and tablets by John F. Oates, Roger S. Bagnall, et al (2001)
This item is not currently available through UB Libraries, but interested UB users are encouraged to order it through Delivery+.
Online: J.D. Sosin, R.S. Bagnall, et al, Checklist of Editions (ongoing)
Greek Papyri: An Introduction by E.G. Turner (1980)
Lockwood: Z6605.G7 T8 1980 | 3rd floor stacks
Goetz: PA3341 .T8
Online: 1968 edition available as an ebook through ACLS Humanities eBook Project.
Griechische Ostraka aus Ägypten und Nubien. Ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 2 vols., by Ulrich Wilcken (1970)
Lockwood: PA3371 .A1 1970 | 5th floor stacks
Online: 1899 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only): Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 and at the Internet Archive: Vol. 1 | Vol. 2
The Greek and Latin literary texts from Greco-Roman Egypt by Roger A. Pack (1965)
Annex: Z6605.G7 P3 1965
Online: 1952 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only).
Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde, 2 vols., by Ludwig Mitteis & Ulrich Wilcken (1963)
Lockwood: PA3341 .G7 | 5th floor stacks
Online: 1912 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only): Vol. 1, Pt. 1 | Vol. 1, Pt. 2 | Vol. 2, Pt. 1 | Vol. 2, Pt. 2 and at the Internet Archive: Vol. 1, Pt. 1 | Vol. 1, Pt. 2 | Vol. 2, Pt. 1 | Vol. 2, Pt. 2
Ancillae for Reading and Understanding Papyri
Namenbuch by Friedrich Preisigke (1967)
Lockwood: Oversize PA3369 .P73 1967 | 5th floor Oversize stacks
Online: 1922 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only).
Dizionario dei nomi geografici e topografici dell'Egitto greco-romano by Aristide Calderini (1835-6)
Online: 1835-6 edition, vol. 1 only, available at HathiTrust (UB only).
Grammatik der griechischen papyri aus der Ptolemäerzeit, 2 Bde., by Edwin Mayser (1970)
Lockwood: PA3367 .M3 | 5th floor stacks
Online: 1934 edition available at the Internet Archive: Vol. 1 | Vol. 2, Pt. 1 | Vol. 2, Pt. 2 | Vol. 2, Pt. 3
Journals
Aegyptus
Annex: Per PA3339 .A4
Annex has: anno 1 (1920) - anno 87 (2007) in print.
Aegyptus website
Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete
Lockwood: PA3339 .A6 | 5th floor stacks
Lockwood has: Bd. 6 (1913/1920), Bd. 10 (1932), Bd. 13 (1938) - Bd. 14 (1941), Bd. 16 (1956) - Bd. 55 (2009) in print.
APF website
The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
Online: See holdings here.
Annex: Per AS36 A497 A2
Annex has: vol. 1 (1963) - vol. 9 (1972) in print.
BASP website
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten (1915- )
Lockwood: PA3316 .P8 | 5th floor stacks
Check record for print holdings.
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
Online: See holdings here.
Annex: Per PA3339 .Z45
Annex has: Bd. 1 (1967) - Bd. 196 (2015) in print.
ZPE website
Online Resources
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Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets The primary purpose of the Checklist of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic 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, Latin, Demotic and Coptic documentary texts on papyrus, parchment, ostraca or wood tablets. Texts published in periodicals as journal articles are mainly excluded, but with a number of exceptions based on the extent of the edition or the presence of full indexes. Greek texts published separately are regularly republished (but without translation or commentary) in successive volumes of Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten (SB), the volumes of which are included here. A separate Sammelbuch has now begun the republication of Coptic texts (SB Kopt.). 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.
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Organa Papyrologica This site unites all the digital tools that are taken care of in Leipzig. Among them is the Papyrus Portal, which searches the digitized papyrological databases in Germany and in its neighbouring countries and displays the results in a homogeneous way. Part of it is also the Papyrus and Ostraca Project Halle-Jena-Leipzig. The data of the collections Basel, Bremen, Erlangen, Cologne, Marburg, Wuerzburg as well as those of Giessen are made available, too. A newcomer is the "multilingual online dictionary of the technical administrative language of Graeco-Roman-Byzantine Egypt" (in short new Fachwörterbuch). The aim of the site Organa Papyrologica is to create an international portal to all the papyrological online tools according to the motto nomen est omen.
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Papyri.info Papyri.info has two primary components. The Papyrological Navigator (PN) supports searching, browsing, and aggregation of ancient papyrological documents and related materials; the Papyrological Editor (PE) enables multi-author, version controlled, peer reviewed scholarly curation of papyrological texts, translations, commentary, scholarly metadata, institutional catalog records, bibliography, and images. Papyri.info aggregates material from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), Bibliographie Papyrologique (BP), and depends on close collaboration with Trismegistos, for rigorous maintenance of relationship mapping and unique identifiers. Work is in progress to incorporate content from the Arabic Papyrological Database (APD) as well.
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POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online A guide and online database for the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
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Trismegistos An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources formerly Egypt and the Nile valley (800 BC-AD 800), now expanding to the Ancient World in general.
