Papyrology

Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Papyrology includes both the translation and interpretation of ancient documents in a variety of languages as well as the care and conservation of rare papyrus originals.

Papyrology as a systematic discipline dates from the 1880s and 1890s, when large caches of well-preserved papyri were discovered by

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

, University of California, Berkeley and the Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli" connected to the University of Florence.

Founders of papyrology were the Viennese orientalist

Frederic George Kenyon,^[5] Otto Rubensohn, Ulrich Wilcken, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt^[6]

and other distinguished scientists.

References

^ Jane Turner, The Dictionary of Art, Grove's Dictionaries, 1996, p.548
^ The Harvard Theological Review, Harvard Divinity School 1941, p.220
^ Glenn W. Most, Disciplining Classics: Altertumswissenschaft als Beruf, 2002, p.192
^ Bobodzhan Gafurovich Gafurov, Yuri Vladimirovich Gankovskiĭ, Fifty Years of Soviet Oriental Studies, Institut narodov Azii (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR) 1968, p.11
^ Leo Deuel, Testaments of Time: The Search for Lost Manuscripts and Records, Knopf, 1965, p. 335
^ Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, The Journal of Jewish Studies, Jewish Chronicle Publications, 1974, p.420

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[1] Jane Turner, The Dictionary of Art, Grove's Dictionaries, 1996, p.548

[2] The Harvard Theological Review, Harvard Divinity School 1941, p.220

[3] Glenn W. Most, Disciplining Classics: Altertumswissenschaft als Beruf, 2002, p.192

[4] Bobodzhan Gafurovich Gafurov, Yuri Vladimirovich Gankovskiĭ, Fifty Years of Soviet Oriental Studies, Institut narodov Azii (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR) 1968, p.11

[5] Leo Deuel, Testaments of Time: The Search for Lost Manuscripts and Records, Knopf, 1965, p. 335

[6] Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, The Journal of Jewish Studies, Jewish Chronicle Publications, 1974, p.420

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