Trismegistos Texts Database
Trismegistos Texts is a searchable online database of metadata of all published and semi-published texts from Egypt and the Nile valley, between roughly BC 800 and 800 AD, not only in Greek, Latin, and Egyptian in its various scripts (Demotic, hieroglyphic, hieratic and Coptic), but also in Meroitic, Aramaic, Arabic, Nabataean, Carian, and other languages (currently in all 105563 records).
Trismegistos' information is provided by a variety of partner projects and institutions, some of which (with red buttons in the list below) change their data in the Filemaker database underlying the online XML-version, so that Trismegistos will always be up-to-date. Other partners (with blue buttons) work in their own database, outside the system, and provide updates of their metadata on a regular, often yearly basis. Since in the latter case the information provided may differ, the unique TM-identification number is normally provided to assure correct identification.
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Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens
52325 TM-records http://aquila.papy.uni-heidelberg.de/gvzFM.html Papyrus-Editionen (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften) Institut für Papyrologie, Universität Heidelberg D. Hagedorn / J. Cowey (Universität Heidelberg) [Greek and Latin documentary papyrological texts from Egypt and the Levant] |
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Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic Texts
13934 TM-records http://www.trismegistos.org/daht/ Multilingualism and multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt Kovalevskaja Preis (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) Seminar für Ägyptologie, Universität Köln M. Depauw (K.U.Leuven / Uni Köln) [Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic texts, both papyrological and epigraphic] |
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Leuven Database of Ancient Books
12534 TM-records http://ldab.arts.kuleuven.be/ Research Unit Ancient History K.U.Leuven W. Clarysse (K.U.Leuven) [Greek and Latin literary texts up to AD 800, including the early manuscripts from Europe] |
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Brussels Coptic Database / Banque de données des textes Coptes Documentaires
7020 TM-records http://dev.ulb.ac.be/philo/bad/copte/base.php?page=accueil.php Centre de Papyrologie et d'Épigraphie grecque (CPEG) Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) A. Delattre (FNRS / ULB) [Coptic documentary papyrological texts] |
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Trismegistos — Magic
2341 TM-records http://www.trismegistos.org/magic/ Multilingualism and multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt Kovalevskaja Preis (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) Seminar für Ägyptologie, Universität Köln F. Naether (Uni Köln / Uni Leipzig) and M. Depauw (general project leader) [all magical texts, regardless of language] |
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Hieroglyphic and Hieratic Papyri
1238 TM-records http://www.trismegistos.org/hhp/ Multilingualism and multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt Kovalevskaja Preis (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) Seminar für Ägyptologie, Universität Köln S. Gülden (Uni Köln) and M. Depauw (general project leader) [Hieroglyphic and Hieratic papyrological texts] |
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Aramaic Texts from Egypt
1118 TM-records http://www.trismegistos.org/ate/ A. Schütze (Institut für Ägyptologie, Universität München) in cooperation with Multilingualism and multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt (M. Depauw) [Aramaic texts from Egypt, both papyrological and epigraphic] |
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The Arabic Papyrology Database
436 records http://www.ori.uzh.ch/apd/ Orientalisches Seminar Universität Zürich A. Kaplony (Universität Zürich) [Arabic papyrological texts from Egypt] |
Trismegistos Texts also incorporates sets of metadata for which we currently have no partner or for which a collaboration is being set up. For the time being, all available information is shown in 
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Inscriptions grecques et latines d'Égypte / Inscriptions in Greek and Latin from Egypt
About 10,000 TM-records currently no Internet address Centre de Papyrologie et d'Épigraphie grecque (CPEG) in cooperation with Trismegistos Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) P. Heilporn / A. Martin (ULB) [Greek and Latin epigraphic texts from Egypt] |
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Leuven Database of Ancient Books: Coptic entries
About 1,100 TM-records to be integrated in the LDAB Onderzoekseenheid Oude Geschiedenis K.U.Leuven W. Clarysse (K.U.Leuven) [Coptic literary texts up to AD 800] |
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Hieroglyphic and Hieratic inscriptions
Currently 3209 TM-records |
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Meroitic Inscriptions
Currently 946 TM-records |
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Other texts, e.g. Nabatean (94), Cypriot (80), and Carian (80) Inscriptions
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The following partners (with grey buttons) do not deliver any information but link directly to Trismegistos Texts by means of the TM-number.
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Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri
582 TM-records http://cpp.arts.kuleuven.be/ Research Unit Greek Studies K.U.Leuven M. Huys (K.U.Leuven) [Greek paraliterary papyrological texts (mythographic, lists and catalogues, school texts, ...] |
The search engine of Trismegistos Texts now includes fields containing information about the location (inventory number), publication (including the name of the editor), material, language, provenance, and date. Furthermore direct links have been established between partner projects: bilingual records included in both the HGV and the DAHT have been identified as such in the two databases, and it is possible to compare the two sets of information. The same facility is being set up for semi-literary texts, magical papyri and school exercises that are found in both the LDAB and the HGV.
Trismegistos Texts also provides links to other Trismegistos partner projects, such as the Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Archives (when a text belongs to an archive), the Collection, Places and Fayum databases, and the bibliographic database (TM Bib).
Trismegistos and Trismegistos Texts are coordinated by the project Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Cologne, Mark Depauw) in cooperation with the Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Collections (Leuven, Willy Clarysse and Katelijn Vandorpe).