Editing the Duke papyri
Editing an ancient text is a painstaking process of transcribing what is there
and reconstructing what is lost. A translation is the final stage of this process.
Here follow the papyri in the Duke collection that have been published. Select
an item to see images of the papyrus, the catalogue record describing the item
as well as the record of its publication.
- Aeschines, In Ctesiphontem
24 and 26-27 in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 3)
- Plato, Parmenides 152 b-d in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 5 (a))
- Private letter in Coptic
(P.Duk.inv. 5 (b))
- Petition (P.Duk.inv. 6)
- Sale of a donkey in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 9)
- Draft of a petition to the
katholikos (P.Duk.inv. 18r)
- Draft of a petition to the
katholikos (P.Duk.inv. 18v)
- Deputation (P.Duk.inv. 19r)
- Draft of a petition to the
katholikos (P.Duk.inv. 19v)
- Aeschines, In Timarchum
40-41 in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 44)
- Order to supply oil (P.Duk.inv. 69)
- Business letter in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 97)
- Private letter in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 98)
- Receipt for rent paid in
kind in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 99)
- Cession of land in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 170)
- Homer, Odyssey 9, 295-309, 344-384 and Odyssey 11, 273-282 (P.Duk.inv. 176)
- Private letter (P.Duk.inv. 177r)
- List of philosophers (P.Duk.inv. 178)
- Petition
(P.Duke.inv. 179r)
- Sale of a house and land in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 185)
- Draft of a petition
(P.Duk.inv. 186r)
- Draft (P.Duk.inv. 186v)
- Draft of a petition to the
katholikos (P.Duk.inv. 187r)
- Draft of a petition to the
katholikos (P.Duk.inv. 187v)
- Draft of a petition to the
katholikos (P.Duk.inv. 188r)
- Draft of a petition
(P.Duk.inv. 188v)
- Draft of a petition to the
katholikos (P.Duk.inv. 189r
- Draft of a petition to the
katholikos (P.Duk.inv. 189v
- Draft of a petition to the
katholikos (P.Duk.inv. 217r)
- Draft of a petition
(P.Duk.inv. 217v)
- Draft (P.Duk.inv. 229r)
- Draft (P.Duk.inv. 229r)
- Alphabets and syllabary in
Greek and Coptic (P.Duk.inv. 232)
- Safe-conduct pass in Coptic
(P.Duk.inv. 268)
- Documentary text in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 313 R (a))
- Comedy in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 313 R (b))
- Account in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 313 V)
- Petition in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 314)
- Private letter in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 315)
- Official memorandum in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 318)
- Business letter in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 320 R)
- Martyrdom in Coptic (P.Duk.inv. 438)
- Tax receipt in Coptic (P.Duk.inv. 455v)
- Business letter in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 497)
- Tax receipt in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 498v)
- Lease of land in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 500)
- Protocol in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 521 R)
- List of villages in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 521 V)
- Declarations on oath in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 531 R)
- Official letter in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 598)
- Official letter in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 599)
- Declaration of wheat in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 600)
- Official report in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 602)
- Official
letter in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 605 R)
- Draft
of an official letter in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 605 V)
- Official letter in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 614)
- Euripides, Orestes 939-954 in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 615)
- Register of declarations
of livestock in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 620 R)
- Aristophanes, Pax 465-476
and 507-523 with scholia in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 643)
- Petition (P.Duk.inv. 670)
- Private
Letter (P.Duk.inv. 675)
- Petition in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 677)
- Petition in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 707)
- Petition (P.Duk.inv. 714)
- Petition (P.Duk.inv. 715)
- Petition (P.Duk.inv. 716)
- Order for payment in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 747)
- Lease of a vineyard in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 749)
- Declarations on oath in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 754 R)
- Herodotus,Historiae 4, 144-145.
(P.Duk.inv. 756)
- Lease of land in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 760)
- Biblical commentary in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 765)
- Scholia minora to Homer,
Odyssey 1, 45-116 in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 769 V)
- Achilles Tatius, Leucippe
et Clitophon 3, 17-25 in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 772)
- Cynic diatribes in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 774)
- Menander, Aspis 487-498
and 525-535 in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 775)
- Cynic diatribe in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 777)
- Division of property in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 780)
- Order to supply seed in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 785)
- Receipt for barley in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 786)
- Order to supply seed in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 794)
- Cicero, In Catilinam 1,
13-15 in Latin (P.Duk.inv. 798)
- Literary Text (P.Duk.inv. 800)
- Matthew 1:1 in Coptic
(P.Duk.inv. 811 R)
- Private(?) letter in Coptic
(P.Duk.inv. 811 V)
- Petition in Greek
(P.Duk.inv. 879)
- Literary text in Coptic
(P.Duk.inv. 1058)
- Draft of a petition to the Katholikos
(P.Duk.inv. 1278)
- Declaration to the Katholikos
(P.Duk.inv. 1278r)
- Draft (P.Duk.inv. 1279)
- Draft (P.Duk.inv. 1280)
- Sale of a house and
land in
Greek (P.Duk.inv. 1284)
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