1. Egypt in Late Antiquity 2: Papyrology, a Crash Course

2. Papyrus, plural: Papyri

3. Coptic Ostracon, 1 st – 4 th cent. AD Birth Certificate on a Wax Tablet Latin and Greek (128 AD) P.Mich. Inv. 766

4. Parchment, ca. 500 CE

5. Two limitations: - Many papyri lost (see also limitations of sources for Egypt in general!) - biases in the material, e.g. by over- representing the elite and the city

6. Book of the Dead on papyrus, from ROM, Toronto, 4 th century BCE

7. Philodemus Project: Papyri from Herculaneum

9. Oxyrhynchus: B.P. Grenfell & A.S. Hunt

10. Vindolanda Inventory No. 85.057

11. Checklist of editions: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/texts/clist.html Look up P.Oxy., P.Cair.Masp. Looking up and searching texts in the original Greek: http://papyri.info/ Looking up information/meta-data on individual texts, archives, names, etc.: http://www.trismegistos.org/ Look up info on Abinnaeus archive Papyrology on the Web

12. Some remarks on the Environment (Bagnall, Ch. 1)

15. Inundation = flooding of the Nile Seasons: Inundation: late July – late November - no time for lands -but: harvesting orchard crops -Start work on vineyards - contracts - starting ploughing of fields Germination (harvest): late November to late March - sowing -Continuing work on vineyards etc. - maintenance work Harvest: late March – late July - harvest + threshing - Paying taxes, rents