Trier papyrus collection

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The Trier Papyrus Collection is the collection of papyri founded in 1982 at the University of Trier . It comprises over 800 pieces in Greek, Hieratic, Demotic and Coptic languages, fragments in Latin as well as ostraca from the 3rd century BC. BC to the 6th century AD

The collection serves as an instrument for research and teaching at the Research Center for Greco-Roman Egypt at the University of Trier, in which the subjects Egyptology, Ancient History, Classical Archeology and Papyrology work together on an interdisciplinary basis. The first acquisitions were made in 1982 together with Heidelberg University . There were further purchases in 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1998 and 2003. The collection was financially supported by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the Nikolaus Koch Foundation .

All papyri come from the antique trade. What was bought was what was offered and what was financially possible. Therefore, most of the papyri are individual pieces, but it turned out that a considerable number belong together in terms of content. The archive of Nepheros on early Christianity and early monasticism in Egypt in the 4th century AD, the archive of Boethos on the foundation of the city of Euergetis in the 2nd century BC should be mentioned here. And court records from the Herakleopolis archive . Quite a few papyri could be put together with fragments in other collections.

As part of a DFG project, the collection was cataloged and digitized from 2002 to 2005 under the direction of Bärbel Kramer . Selected exhibits from the collection were shown outside of Trier, including a. 2012 in the University Library Weimar .

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