Sydney, Macquarie University

Name:	Sydney, Macquarie University
Location:	Sydney
Country:	Australia
Address:	Macquarie University Museum of Ancient Culture New South Wales 2109 Sydney Australia
Homepage:	http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/doccentre/papyri/index.html
Contact:	D. Barker Karl Van Dyke
E-mail:	don.barker@mq.edu.au trevor.evans@mq.edu.au
Numbering:	[06.09.06] - without prefix, number 39.02 - without prefix, numbers from 100 till 586
Conservation:
Inventarisation:	The information below is mainly derived from a preliminary publication by S.R.Pickering and D.C.Barker, A Handbook to the MacQuarie Papyri, Sydney 1998 (53 pages, description of 40 individual papyri, with numerous small photographs).
Publications:
Work:	The Ph.D. dissertation of R. Cook contains the edition of approximately 30 Ptolemaic papyri from the collection; publication is imminent; cf. R. Cook, Proceedings of the 20th Intern. Congress of Papyrologists, Kopenhagen 1992, pp.223-228 The Aspidas archive is being studied by D.C. Barker.
Highlights:	Highlists of the collection are: fragments of the New Testament book of Acts (LDAB 2851), Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead; an archive of Ptolemaic shipping documents; an archive of Ptolemaic land surveys; a complete Coptic magical codex; a large portion of the fourth-century AD archive of Aspidas; a bilingual prayer in Greek and Old Nubian; three Oxyrhynchus papyri (already long published as P.Oxy. X 1300, XII 1494, and XII 1592).
History:	The MacQuarie papyrus collection contains about 640 fragments, mostly non-literary texts in Greek. Most papyri come from cartonnage and are of Ptolemaic date. There are also some texts on parchment and some on wooden tablets and a few texts in Latin, Hieroglyphic, Hieratic and Demotic, Coptic and Hebrew. The Macquarie collection also incorporates three papyri the former A. Swasey collection.