Warsaw, Department of Papyrology

Name:	Warsaw, Department of Papyrology
Location:	Warsaw
Country:	Poland
Address:	Warszawa University Department of Papyrology Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 PL-00-927 Warszawa (Warsaw) Polska
Homepage:	http://www.papyrology.uw.edu.pl/
Contact:	Fax: +48 22 26 90 30
E-mail:	inspapyr@plearn.edu.pl
Numbering:	[20.11.06] - OD, numbers from 1 till 3 [ostraca] - P. Berl., numbers from 362? to 16876 - P. Vars., numbers from 1 till 34 - P. Vrat., numbers 1 till 11
Conservation:
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Publications:	P.Vars.; O.Edfou
Work:
Highlights:
History:	Most papyri of the older collection, published in P.Vars., have been destroyed in 1939. Only the following still survive : P.Vars. 1 a-n, P.Vars. 5-8, P.Vars. 10, P.Vars. 16, P.Vars. 26; see Z.Borkowski, P.Vars. (reedition 1974, addendum). Some papyri from the Berlin collection are kept at the institute, e.g. BGU 1018 (see JJP 22, 1992, pp.8-9). The Ostraca (109 Greek, 12 Coptic) and mummy labels from the collection A. Deissmann were destroyed during the second world war, with the exception of a single mummy label from Akhmim and 6 ostraca; cf. J. Manteuffel, Atti del IV Congresso Firenze 1935, Milan 1936, pp.45-50; M. Mossakowska, Tell-Edfou soixante ans après. Fouilles Franco-polonaises IV, Cairo 1999, p.49-50. At the university of Warsaw are kept about 20 ostraca, Greek, demotic and Arabic, found in the Franco-Polish excavations of Tell Edfu.