papyri's galerij

Detail from the "Banks Homer" preserved in the British Library.

Ostraca (Ink inscription on pottery shard). Egypt 19th-20th dynasty (1185-1200 B.C.E.)

Ostraca (ink inscription on pottery shard) in storage box. Egypt 19th-20th dynasty (1185-1200 B.C.E.)

Ostraca with Hieratic writing (ink inscription on stone flake). Egypt 19th-20th dynasty (1185-1200 B.C.E.)

Unidentified documentary text in Greek on papyrus. Written in a fine cursive hand. The flourishing nature of the script with characters having long extensions is typical of Byzantine Era Greek (mid…

Arabic Documentary Papyrus Egypt, Late 7th - Mid 8th Century C.E. (Early 2nd - Mid 2nd Century A.H.). The document lists needy poor male Muslims and is a reference to the distribution of funds from…

Ostraca. Egypt 19th-20th dynasty (1185-1200 B.C.E.)

Fragment of a letter written in Arabic on papyrus. Egypt, AD 709 - 714.
This document is from the administrative archive of Qurra ibn Sharîk, Umayyad Governor of Egypt.

Hieroglyphic text on papyrus. Egypt, 18th Dynasty, c. 1500 BC.

Letter written in Coptic on papyrus. Egypt, c. AD 750