Search the LDAB

» Fill in one or more search criteria; for every search field, you can specify up to two requests, combined by the boolean 'OR' or 'AND':
Publication:	lookup lookup
	E.g. P. Lond. Lit. 238; P. Kö Gr. 8 331; Lowe, CLA 8 1113; ... When looking for a specific publication, the user may, in most cases, find it more convenient to look for a publication in the online TM-bibliography which is fully linked with the LDAB database.
Editor:
	E.g. Milne; West; Martin Litchfield; ...
Catalogues:
	E.g. Mertens-Pack 0237; Gigante 0176; Van Haelst 0649
Ancient_author:
	Latin forms: e.g. Herodotus, Euclides; but Old Testament and New Testament
Book:
	Latin titles for classical authors: e.g. Dyscolus; but English for christian texts: e.g. 'Romans'
Inventory:
	E.g. E.g. Ann Arbor, Michigan University P. 1202; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery 517; London, British Museum EA 33127; ... When looking for a specific text, the quickest way to find it is to combine a search for the English name of the city with one for the number, e.g. 'London AND 33127'. Alternatively, you can search for a collection here.
Century:
	E.g. BC03; AD06
Date:	between and strict
	E.g. between -30 and 25. For BC dates use negative numbers. To look for exact dates fill out the same number twice. The standard 'strict' search only includes records whose ranges entirely fall within the search range. When 'strict' is unchecked, the computer will also include records for which only one of the terms of the record's range falls in the search range, provided the range of the record is not broader than that of the search range. Thus records with a range -50 to -20 will be included amongst the results of the example search, but not those with a range -332 to -30.
Provenance:
	Both modern and ancient place names can be used for searching: e.g. France, Pathyris, Gebelein,...
Nome/region:	lookup lookup
	E.g. U09 (for the 9th Upper Egyptian nome), L01 (for the 1st Lower Egyptian nome), or 00 (for the Fayum). Only codes can be used in this field; to enter them, click 'lookup' above to choose a nome from the geographically ordered list.
Material:
	E.g. Papyrus, parchment, pottery, ostracon
Bookform:
	Only codex, roll, or sheet
Language/script:
	E.g. Greek, Latin, Demotic, Coptic (Fayumic), ...
Type:
	E.g. school text, ...
Limit:	Egypt only Outside Egypt Egypt and abroad
Other:	contains
Other:	contains
Other:	contains
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A wildcard character is added automatically before and after your search string, to facilitate searching. If you want to search for records with a field not empty, type an underscore '_' as search-value for that field.