Info Of D-Scribes: Reuniting Fragments, Identifying Scribes As Well As Characterizing Scripts: The Digital Paleography Of Greek As Well As Coptic Papyri

D-Scribes: "Reuniting fragments, identifying scribes together with characterizing scripts: the Digital paleography of Greek together with Coptic papyri"

Welcome to the website of the SNSF Ambizione projection "Reuniting fragments, identifying scribes together with characterizing scripts: the Digital paleography of Greek together with Coptic papyri" (September 2018 – August 2022)

Greek together with Coptic papyri preserved inward the sands of Arab Republic of Egypt are i of our brain sources for Classical together with early on Christian literature. They are too crucial for the champaign of Ancient History of the Eastern Mediterranean world, every bit the texts institute written inward them bridge from the Hellenistic menstruation to the Middle Ages. The papyri are ofttimes incomplete, however, broken accidentally during the course of report of fourth dimension or, inward to a greater extent than recent periods, intentionally cutting to endure sold inward pieces inward the antiquities market. It is exactly because of the fragmentary nature of these irreplaceable texts that palaeography, the report of ancient handwritings, is of bully importance to papyrologists. First, palaeography helps to position the specific handwriting of i private over several fragments. Secondly, it provides dating arguments inward the absence of other criteria, since Greek together with Coptic scripts convey developed consistently over time.

The introduce interrogation projection aims to lay the foundation for an online interface through which papyrologists would endure able to expect for like – or identical – handwritings to a given papyrus together with for typical samples of writing for a given period. To accomplish this ambitious goal, this projection volition kickoff focus on 3 distinct together with complementary example studies:

• the papyri which incorporate Homer’s Iliad, written inward Ancient Greek;
• the richest archive of the Byzantine menstruation which is called the archive of Dioscorus of Aphrodito written inward Greek together with Coptic (from the sixth c. A.D.);
• and the archive of Papas, written inward Coptic, whose papyri were institute broken inward a jounce together with hence correspond a existent jigsaw puzzle for papyrologists. 

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