Welcome to the papyrus home page of the Special Collections Library at Duke University

The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and religion and all others interested in ancient Egypt. The project of conserving, interpreting, cataloguing and imaging the largely unpublished Duke papyrus collection has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency. The directors of the project are Steven L. Hensen, Director of Planning and Project Development, Special Collections Library, and John F. Oates, Professor of Ancient History.

Read about papyri in general:

• From the world of the papyri
• Writing in Egypt under Greek and Roman rule
• Late antique Egypt
• History and future of papyrology
• General bibliography
• Bibliography on Greek literary papyri
• Checklist of editions (unformatted)
• Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS)

Search these papyrus web pages

Search the online catalogue records of the Duke papyrus collection

NB: There are over 1,000 records online.

Browse 200 images of and texts about Duke papyri by:

Selected topics:

• Archives (family papers etc.)
• Forms of documents (notarial etc.)
• Geographical names
• Literary papyri
• Material aspects (potsherds etc.)
• No text (picture)
• Publication status
• Religious aspects
• Script (bookhands etc.)
• Source of papyri (excavations etc.)
• Subliterary papyri
• Women

Language:

• Languages and Scripts
• Demotic
• Coptic
• Greek
• Latin

Last updated on 9/8/95