Oslo, University Library

Name:	Oslo, University Library
Location:	Oslo
Country:	Norway
Address:	Oslo University Library Moltke Moes vei 39 Blindern N-0315 Oslo Norge P.O.Box 1009, Blindern
Homepage:	http://opes.uio.no/papyrus.html
Contact:	Federico Aurora Or: knut.kleve@kri.uio.no
E-mail:	federico.aurora@ub.uio.no
Numbering:	[20.11.06] - Ethnogr. Museum, numbers from 12616 till 26948 - O., numbers from 3 till 23 - P., numbers from 1 till 1672 [for the inv_no of the papyri in this collection, cf. http://opes.uio.no/Papyrus/search.htm]
Conservation:	The collections contains 2272 inventoried papyri, of which 280 have thus far been published.
Inventarisation:	The Oslo collection is being digitalised within the framework of APIS. The OPES project (Oslo Papyri Electronic System) intends 1) to make all the published papyri available, catalogued and imaged, on the www, then 2) to catalogue and image the rest of the papyri, making the catalogue available on the web and keeping the images in a separate database that users may access on demand.
Publications:	P.Oslo I, II, III; many papyri are published in periodicals, especially Symbolae Osloenses, and later incorporated in the Sammelbuch, e.g. SB 5661-5664, 6016
Work:
Highlights:	P.Oslo 1 1 : magical papyrus roll of the 4th cent. AD, written in 12 columns on the recto and transversa charta on the verso and consisting of magical recipes especially for love magic, and even "a remedy to prevent conception, the only one that exists in the world." ( LDAB 5704 ) P.Oslo 3 78 : edict from the emperor Hadrian (AD 136) announcing a diminution of taxes after a bad Nile inundation
History:	The first nucleus of the Oslo collection was the private collection of S. Eitrem, which he donated to the university in the 1930's. In 1920 S. Eitrem purchased 329 papyri (including fragments) from several dealers in Cairo and in the Fayum, among them the magical roll P.Oslo 1 and about 30 Coptic texts. Main sources are Karanis and Theadelpheia. A joint purchase with the British Museum and Michigan and Columbia universities resulted in another 75 items, most of them well-preserved. They are all Roman and come again from the Fayum. Another joint purchase of 1928 also included Princeton university; the share of Oslo was 27 papyri. L. Amundsen bought more papyri in Egypt in 1927-1929. The small collectionof Greek and demotic ostraca of the ethnographical Museum is now also incorporated in the University Library. Cf. L. Amundsen, Chron. d'Eg. 7, 1929, pp.328-330. See now : http://opes.uio.no/Papyrus/Acquisition.htm