Pahlavi Papyri in the University of Pennsylvania Museum Collection

Compiled by Robert A. Kraft, starting 10 August 2010 [latest update 10au2010]

The information has been extracted from the provisional Museum Inventory list.

Bold type indicates that the scanned image is available at the official SCETI site (in process 13 January 2009); most other image links are "unofficial," from digital images taken by R.A.Kraft for research purposes, with permission of the Egyptology section, starting in Fall 2008.

J. de Menasce obtained photos of several Pahlavi pieces for his 1957 publication in Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum 3.4-5, subsequently edited by Dieter Weber (1992)

E 16482 [4+ small mounted fragments -- too small for identification -- possibly Pahlavi (see deMenasce pl.18 listing)]

  RAK digital images 16je2009 [4881-82]

E 16483A blank or very faint || / blank? -- [deMenasce pl.14 [upside down]; Weber P7]

E 16483B PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.14; Weber P7]


E 16483C PAHLAVI both sides [deMenasce pl.14; Weber P7]


E 16483D PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.14; Weber P7; drawing, piece is mounted badly in SCETI image]

E 16484 PAHLAVI || / blank --[deMenasce pl.18; Weber P21]


E 16485 PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.13; Weber P3]


E 16486 [upside down] PAHLAVI both sides [deMenasce pl.15; Weber P10]


E 16487A PAHLAVI || (turn 90 degrees) / blank -- [deMenasce pl.15; Weber P17]


E 16487B [upside down] PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.15; Weber P16]


E 16487C PAHLAVI || / blank -- [Weber P15]


E 16488 PAHLAVI || / blank -- (mostly holes!) [deMenasce pl.17; Weber P20]


E 16489 [upside down] PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.15; Weber P12]


E 16490 [4 Pahlavi fragments || / blank -- ] [deMenasce pl.14; Weber P9]

  RAK digital images 16je2009 [4877-78]

E 16491 [2 Pahlavi fragments || / blank -- ] [Weber P13-14]

  RAK digital images 16je2009 [top image upside down] [4879-80]

E 16492A PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.18; Weber P23]


E 16492B PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.18; Weber P24]

E 16492C ARABIC? (very faint) || / blank -- [Weber, n.22 "surely not Pahlavi"]


E 16493 PAHLAVI || / blank -- [Weber P60 (appendix, not in deMenasce)]


E 16494 PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.15; Weber P11]

E 16495A [upside down] PAHLAVI both sides [deMenasce pl.13; Weber P1]


E 16495B PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.13; Weber P2]


E 16496 PAHLAVI (turn 270 degrees) || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.13; Weber P4]


E 16497 PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.18; Weber P22]


E 16498 [upside down] PAHLAVI || / blank -- [deMenasce pl.14; Weber P6]


E 16499 PAHLAVI both sides, -- upside down in relation to || [deMenasce pl.16; Weber P18]


E 16500 PAHLAVI || / blank (blot? of one letter) -- [deMenasce pl.13; Weber P5]


E 16501 parchment PAHLAVI on one side only / blank [deMenasce pl.14; Weber P8 (but not papyrus!)]


E 16502 parchment PAHLAVI / other side is blank [deMenasce pl.17; Weber P19]

Box D, folder 22

22.3 ( 2 Arabic/Pahlavi)

22.4 ( 5 Arabic/Pahlavi)

22.5 (3 Arabic/Pahlavi)

22.6 (9+ Arabic/Pahlavi)

[[update 10au2010]]