Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Name:	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Location:	Oxford
Country:	United Kingdom
Address:	Ashmolean Museum Beaumont St Oxford OX1 2PH UK - England
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Contact:	Liam McNamara
E-mail:	liam.mcnamara@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
Numbering:	[27.06.06] - without prefix, numbers such as 1819.34 and 1990.60 [with the year of acquisition?] - without prefix, numbers Hu. 1899 and Hu. 1899 W. 3 - Bodl. Aram. Inscr., numbers from 1 till 7 - Bodl. Copt. Inscr. [= C. I.], numbers from 1 till 533 - Bodl. Eg. Inscr., numbers from D (< Dendera) 6 till D 176 - Bodl. Eg. Inscr., numbers from 2 till 9494 - Bodl. Gr. Inscr., numbers from 2 till 3036 - Box, number 24 (without numbers) - D. [= Demotic], numbers from 37 till 44 - E., numbers 3659 and 3922 - EES [= Egypt Exploration Society], numbers such as box 79/82 (1) - Griffith, numbers such as A, A 1, Z 1 - O. Aram., number 1 - O. Copt. [= C. O.], numbers from 5 till 1168 - O. dem., numbers from 1 till 1455 - O. Fay., numbers from 1 till 50 [< publication numbers] - O. Gr., numbers from 108 till 3470 - P., numbers from 2 till 9 - P. Oxford, number 5 - QL, number 1178 - T. Gr., numbers 2903 and 3018
Conservation:	Published papyri are kept between glass plates; most unpublished papyri are in boxes between paper folders. The ostraca are kept in drawers.
Inventarisation:	For the ostraca formerly belonging to the Bodleian library, see the concordance made by K.A. Worp, ZPE 89 (1991), pp.105-118.
Publications:	P.Ashm. Reymond O.Tait Bodl. O.Ashm. Shelton P.Oxford Griffith (E. Bresciani) P. Count 9 and 10
Work:	Some demotic Petrie papyri are under study by G. Martin. E. Bresciani prepares a second volume of the Soknopiaou Nesos papyri (P.Oxford Griffith II)
Highlights:
History:	1. Demotic Petrie papyri 2. Hawara undertakers archive, demotic and Greek 3. Demotic papyri from the Temple of Soknopaiou Nesos 4. Greek and demotic ostraca, including those formerly at the Bodleian Library