The papyri originate from Deir el-Medina. The results of the project (information about material aspects, edition and reconstruction of texts, etc.) will be incorporated in the Turin Papyrus Online Platform (soon on-line!).Īlso inherent to the project is also available a PhD position in Egyptology at the University of Basel (from March 1, 2020).įor more information and to stay up to date click HERE. The corpus of papyri housed in the Museo Egizio in Turin comprises some 9000 fragments and approximately 230 larger ensembles and forms the most extensive known papyrus archive from the Pharaonic period. This project aims to study the heterogeneous Ramesside papyri from Deir el-Medina held in the Turin collection with a particular focus on the specific scribal practices of the individual agents producing the texts. The Egyptian Museum is currently developing a web site where users can learn about the history and content of the Papyrus Collection, ongoing restoration work, research conducted by scholars on our papyri, but also collaborative research projects such as ' Crossing Boundaries: Understanding complex scribal practices in Ancient Egypt', which sees the Egyptian Museum collaborate with the Universities of Basel and Liege. Their content is also very varied: administrative, legal, literary, ritual, religious, magical and funerary texts (such as the Book of the Dead). About half of these texts are written in Egyptian (in the cursive-hieroglyphic or hieratic script), while the rest are written in Demotic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic. It comprises nearly 700 whole or reassembled manuscripts and over 17,000 papyrus fragments. The Museo Egizio holds one of the world’s most significant papyrus collections. The title is ' The Papyrus Collection of the Museum'.

On the website of the Museo Egizio in the section 'Collection and research' a new page is available.

Turin papyrus map