1. Institutions with papyrology collections
2. Images
3. Coptic
4. Scholarly literature
5. Other papyrological resources
6. Related Web Resources

What's New on the Papyrology Homepage

Links to Internet Sites Dealing with Papyri

• University of Michigan
  1. Information about the University's Special Collections which include papyrology
  2. Introduction to collection and Digitization Project
  3. University of Michigan Papyrus Collection Home Page
  4. The University of Michigan Papyrus Digitization Project
• Duke University
  1. Duke papyrus homepage (with links to images)
  2. The Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri Homepage
  3. The Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri via Perseus
  4. Telnet to the Duke University Library with catalogued papyri
     (Directions available for accessing papyri records.)
  5. Go directly to The Checklist (which is a very long text document)
• Yale University
  1. Beinecke Library via gopher
  2. Search the Beinecke papyrus collection
• Universität Heidelberg
  1. Info and images of VBP II (= P.Bad. II)
  2. Institut für Papyrologie WWW Server
  3. Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens, an index of some large files from the University's gopher
  4. Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg Egyptology Collection including a description and the most recent "Neuerwerbungen..."
  5. New Acquisitions at the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
• Universität Gießen
  1. Kurzberichte aus den Geissener Papyrussammlungen from the Universitäts Bibliothek gopher
  2. Publikationen full menu (incl. previous link) from same gopher
• Università di Lecce
  1. Centro di Studi Papirologici
  2. Index to Images of Demotic Papyri
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  1. Exhibition on Books and Libraries in Antiquity
  2. Department of Classical Studies (in English) with several relevant links, including:
     • TimesDemotic.sit, the demotic Truetype (for the Macintosh) font created by the Leiden Ancient History Department. 45 K
     • DemoticLecce.sit, a course for papyrologists to learn the fundamentals of demotic in a couple of hours. Requires the font Timesdemotic. The text will eventually be published in the Proceedings of the 1994 Lecce Summer School (Mario Capasso) 198K
• Catholic University of America
  1. Semitics/ICOR Library Description
• University of Saskatchewan
  1. Department of Classics Homepage includes an Introduction to the Saskatoon Repository of the International Papyrological Photographic Archive and a Comprehensive List of the Holdings of the Archive.
• The University of Copenhagen
  1. Carsten Niebuhr Institute
     • P. Carlsberg
  2. The Institute of Greek and Latin
     • P.Haunienses
     • Description and index to the AIP papyrus-archive

• Papyrus of Ani, with zoomable leading image from E. A. Wallis Budge
• The Rhind Papyrus
• The Moscow Papyrus
• Timothy Seid's Papyrus page with a leading outline image of a papyrus plant
• The University of Michigan Papyrus Digitization Project
• Duke papyri images
• VBP II (= P.Bad. II)
• Università di Lecce Demotic Papyri Index
• Oriental Institute Book of the Dead illustration from the OI Museum Highlights
• Fragment of a Book of the Dead from Emory University Museum

• CoptNet entry on Greek and Coptic Papyrus Codices and Scrolls
• "Koptologie. Christliches Aegypten" new acquisitions at the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
• The St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society

• Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
• Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie
  • Journal Homepage, maintained by Bernhard Südholt
  • Contents of ZPE alone
    • 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
  • Table of Contents (as part of larger TOCS-IN entry):
    • 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
  • Indices for volumes (from Dieter Hagedorn)
    • 101
    • 102
    • 103
    • 104
    • 105
    • 106
    • 107
    • 108
    • 109
    • 110
    • 111
    • 112
    • 113
  • Index for vol. 1 - 100, a binhexed MS Word file from Dieter Hagedorn
  • Search the indices for vol. 1 - 100

• Alain Martin's Papyrology entry in the Bibliotheca Classica Selecta
• Recording, Processing, and Archiving Images of Ancient Carbonized Papyri by Computerized Methods from Antti Nurminen
• Papyrus collections on the web, from Dustin Donahue
• Advanced Papyrological Information System: A Joint Project of Columbia University, Duke University, Princeton University, The University of California, Berkeley, The University of Michigan, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Yale University [ Narrative submitted as part of a grant proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities]
• The Demotic Dictionary Project
• Demotic Texts Published on the World Wide Web, maintained by Alexandra A. O'Brien
  (You might want to turn off image-loading if you have a slow connection)
• Papy List
  • A brief informational page
  • Logs of papy list postings from the University of Heidelberg
• Papyrology On-line by Gregg Schwendner
• Papyrological Resources in Germany listed at the University of Heidelberg
• American Society of Papyrologists Home Page
• TEI Discussion list excerpt regarding papyrology
• A User's Guide to the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library at Georgetown
• Philodemus Project
  • On the UCLA Classics Department Homepage
  • At UT Austin
• Timothy Seid's Papyrus page from his Interpreting Ancient Manuscript pages at Brown

Papyrologist Hall of Fame

• Photographs of famous papyrologists

• Beowulf Project, an example of what digital technology can do for manuscript studies.
  • Also contains the very useful and worthwhile Digital Preservation, Restoration and Dissemination of Medieval Manuscripts by Kevin S. Kiernan. (Thanks to Chuck Jones for calling this to my attention.)
• World Art Treasures : Portraits Romains d'Egypte
• Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Home Page
• ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East
• Newton Institutute Egyptology Homepage at Cambridge