Unidentified 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.

PROBABLE PSEUDO-WRITING (in separate file)

OTHERWISE UNIDENTIFIED OR ILLEGIBLE

E 16257  vellum,  unidentified

EGYPT [amulet?] like ARMENIAN? / back blank, discolored in 2 of 3 parts 

 

E 16280   papyrus, GREEK  [number of frgs (20+ 1970 xeroxed, one side only), Gk & Coptic; #27 by WMM]  MISS [possibly got moved to boxes? -- see below]

   RAK 1970 xeroxes with some notes on transcription, scanned 08se2010

   16280.00 two small pieces, papyrus, no clear text

   16280.04 illegible

   16280.05 faint writing

   16280.06 faint traces of writing

   16280.11-12 difficult to decipher, but Greek-Coptic type

   16280.13 parts of about 13 barely visible lines, probably Greek-Coptic type

 

E 16289   papyrus,

GREEK/COPTIC ["ten fragments of documents" (9 xeroxes); #49 by WMM]  MISS [missing as of 19ja2010]

 RAK 1970 xeroxes (mostly outlines)

  [scanned images, 08se2010]

    16289.02 illegible

    16289.03 illegible

    16289.04 illegible

    16289.08 illegible

E 16305X papyrus, GREEK? -- / unidentified ||

 

E 16306           vellum, COPTIC 

[There is considerable confusion in the records between the items listed as E 16287 and E 16306; for inventory purposes, I have attempted to follow the designations found in the earliest available photographic records]

   RAK digital images fe2009 [##4035-4047]

E 16306.02 largely illegible scrap of vellum [get image]

E 16306.03  very small boomerang shaped vellum fragment [get image]

E 16407  papyrus, GREEK/COPTIC [several frgs; 3+ 1970 xeroxed] MISS

  [missing as of 19ja2010]

  [scanned 1970 xerox images, 08se2010]

   16407.02 a few traces of letters ||

   16407.03 possibly two layers, 4 or 5 lines in two sections, Greek-Coptic

   16407.05 traces of letters

   16407.07 parts of 3+ Greek/Coptic lines --

   16407.08 parts of 5 faint Greek/Coptic lines

   16407.09 illegible

   16407.10 illegible

   16407.11 traces of a few letters

   16407.15 illegible, poorly imaged

E 16695   papyrus,  + [about 100 pieces, mostly papyrus, of which 30 or so are small scraps) MIXED marked d by WMM] [need conservation separation]

panel #4 (backside #4) -- 14 + 3 pieces

E 16751  papyrus, GREEK? ["[parts of 4 lines of] cryptic Greek writing on recto [--?]. Trace of writing on reverse [also -- !]. Removed from mount by Parsons" Found in boxE folder 47.1 Sept 2009]

 

E 16770 papyrus, ARABIC "unclassified" (DV #180)

  unidentified, perhaps Greek

  RAK digital image 06ja2010 [*6042-43]

 

Box C, folder 05 --

05.2.7 unidentified 2+ lines || / Coptic/Greek 5 lines --

Box D,  folder 17

17.1 unidentified papyrus piece, writing on both sides

17.2 small inscribed paper scrap (letter omega?)

Box E (mostly Greek; contains numerous folders, in various groupings reflecting classification work done by RAK group in the 1970s)

  RAK digital images, 23se2009 (32-41, 43) [5376-5436], 30se2009 (44-48, 42, 24-31) [5437-5456+], 07oc2009 (09-14, 16-23) [5473-5514+], 14oc2009 (01-08) [5523-5539]

folder 01 two pieces with ink [need other side of one]

folder 02

02.1 part of 4 Greek lines (MIXAH) || / faint image? (design?) --

02.2 unidentified writing (Coptic?) -- / same ||

folder 03 [writing at right angles, front and back]

03.2 unidentified writing (Greek?) at right angles -- / --

folder 06 part of 5 Greek lines || / unidentified lines --

09.2.04 (small) unidentified language -- / Greek? ||

11.1 parts of 7-8 lines byz Greek || / 2 unidentified lines --

[updated, 12se2010]