• By default, all papyri are shown. You can start a search by filtering the database using the filters (below).
  • If your search returns 0 papyri, it means that the parameters you have selected cannot be combined. Try removing one of them!
  • It is recommended to filter one parameter at a time (e.g. first select one or more document type, and later refine your search by selecting a subtype).

  • The keyword search is a full-text search of our metadata. It includes the papyrus title, identifiers (such as Trismegistos number), subjects and place names.
  • The subjects are derived from HGV subjects, which you can see in papyri.info among the HGV metadata, under the heading 'Subjects'. They available both in German (simplified) and in English.

  • The types and subtypes of documents are further described in the Typology.

Provenance and date are from the HGV data on papyri.info, encoded in EpiDoc XML.

  • The Provenance is the Nome when available, or a more precise place name depending on the precision of the HGV metadata.
    Technical note: the Nome is usually encoded with a <provenance> element. However, not all papyri have this precise encoding. When there is no <provenance> element, the Nome may also be extracted from <origPlace>, if it is present in parenthesis. If the Nome cannot be safely deduced, then the content of <origPlace> is used.
  • The Date can be filtered by selecting a range of centuries, within the corpus bounds (Prolemaic and Roman period). The search is loose, meaning that the date range of a document must overlap with the selected range. Papyri that have an incomplete range, i.e only one terminus post or ante quem, are given a range of 100 years before/after their terminus.
    When there are multiple datations for one papyrus, we consider only the first one. For a precise datation, please check HGV.