Selection of Digital Resources

1. This brief list is to get us started. As the term progresses we will add to this (suggestions welcome).
   

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3. Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB)
   

4. Now the standard starting point for finding fragments of ancient bookrolls and other literary and para-literary texts. The umbrella site (trismegistos) is worth exploring as well. You’ll find lots of references over time to Pack or to the second edition, Mertens-Pack, and this is now an online facility with much more extensive bibliography than LDAB (though otherwise more limited): this is known as MP3, Mertens-Pack online.
   

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6. Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets
   

7. This is the essential key to understanding abbreviations of papyrological editions. Started by Duke’s own Bill Willis and John Oates, it continues to be maintained by colleague Josh Sosin, with the help of others. The papyrology room uses these abbreviations as the basis for organization, so this resource is critical to finding your way around in that room.
   

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9. Papyri.info
   

10. The so-called “Papyrological Navigator” is the basic portal for work on papyrological documents. Important for our purposes, since it includes letters. This extends the work of the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri, and our own Josh Sosin is one of those leading the current effort. (You can also use this to get at literary APIS records, but it’s not very intuitive.)
    

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12. Since the Papyrological Navigator focuses so much on documents, other views can be important for retrieving information on literary texts. Much the richest set of resources is often found in the catalogues for individual host institutions. These are some I find particularly useful:
    

13. Oxyrhynchus Online - an important resource for images of the Oxyrhynchus papyri, which is far the largest repository of literary remains on papyrus
    

14. Duke Papyrus Archive - old but still useful for understanding better the contours of the Duke papyrus collection. Mostly put together by Peter van Minnen.
    

15. Yale Papyrus Collection - an important collection and a very thoroughly done site, perhaps the most complete
    

16. Michigan APIS portal - an important collection, and a good site, but unpublished papyri often have restricted (i.e. no) access to the images  
    

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18. pappal, though focused on documentary hands, is an indispensable tool, since it hosts a complete collection of the images of dated documents on papyrus
    

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20. That should be enough to get you going. As said, we will look at more as we work further into the course.
    

Selection of Print Resources

1. Michigan bibliography to papyrology
   

2. This is a very serviceable introductory bibliography, put together by Traianos Gagos before his early death. Obviously, only parts of it are relevant to our pursuit, and I will give suitable pointers as we go along. But this is a great basic resource to have to hand.
   

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4. Duke Papyrology & Palaeography Room
   

5. Most of the papyrological editions and many other papyrus-related materials are gathered in the Duke Papyrology & Palaeography Room, located on the first floor of Perkins opposite the Rubenstein reading room.
   

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7. For palaeographical dating of so-called book hands, the following list is essential (all located in the P&P room):
   

8. •Eric G. Turner, Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World (second ed. rev. P. Parsons).
   

9. •Richard Seider, Paläographie der Griechischen Papyri. 3 volumes.
   

10. •Wilhelm Schubart, Papyri Graecae Berolinenses.
    

11. •C. Roberts, Greek Literary Hands, 350 BC - A.D. 400
    

12. •R. Barbour, Greek Literary Hands, A.D. 400 - 1600.
    

13. •G. Cavallo, Greek Bookhands of the Byzantine Period
    

14. •C. Cavallo and H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands