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- P., numbers A and B

An inventory is already prepared for the separate pieces of papyri and will be prepared for the small fragments (see below).The web site will give access to the published material (with bibliography, translation); 600dpi images will be available.

Two Ptolemaic papyri (Papyri Universitatis Cretensis 1 and 2) edited by B.G. Mandilaras, Some Papyrus Fragments of the University of Crete, Concilium Eirene XVI, Proceedings of the 16th International Eirene Conference, Prague 31.8 _ 4.9. 1982, vol. I, Prague 1983, pp. 166-172One Byzantine papyrus (Papyrus Universitatis Cretensis 5): edited by Nikos Litinas, Learning to write in Byzantine Egypt, forthcoming in ARIADNE 10 (2003)

Nikos Litinas has undertaken the restoration, digital reproduction, and publication of the 200 ptolemaic fragments.

1. SizeThe collection contains four pieces of papyri and a group of about 200 small fragments. Most of them are fragments of the same papyri.2. AcquisitionsThe collection was acquired by the Department of Philology from various dealers in 1980 (four documentary papyri, of which two are Greek of the Ptolemaic period [Papyri Universitatis Cretensis 1 and 2], one Coptic [Papyrus Universitatis Cretensis 3] and one Arabic [Papyrus Universitatis Cretensis 4], thanks to B.G. Mandilaras' suggestion and N. Panayiotakis' support) and in 1998 (circa 150 cartonnage small fragments written in Greek and dated in the Ptolemaic period)3. Distribution- Language: mostly Greek, one Coptic and one Arabic piece.- Chronology: mostly Ptolemaic period (cartonnage papyri), some from the Byzantine and Arabic period.- Geography: mostly unknown.- Genres: documentary papyri and one school exercise.