Zakład Papirologii IA UW - Department of Papyrology IA UW

15/05/2020

A multispectral imaging study has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments previously thought to be blank, contain text.

30/01/2020

Great presentation delivered by Prof. Eleanor Dickey

27/01/2020

Na najbliższym, ekstraordynaryjnym seminarium Ewy Wipszyckiej, 30.01.2020 wystąpi Eleanor Dickey (University of Reading), z referatem:
'A Warsaw papyrus that changes the history of ancient lexicography?'.
Spotkanie jest współorganizowane przez Koło Warszawskie PTF.

Abstrakt

The Latin-Greek lexicon of ps-Philoxenus, a treasure-trove of learned and archaic vocabulary that is universally agreed to be by far the best work of ancient bilingual lexicography, has for centuries been thought to be a creation of the sixth century AD. All available evidence indicated that bilingual dictionaries of such scale and quality could not have existed in earlier centuries. But does a Warsaw papyrus datable to c. AD 200 contain a fragment of ps-Philoxenus’ lexicon? If so, how would that change our understanding of the history of ancient bilingual lexicography?

15/10/2019

An update

03/08/2019

We'll miss Lecce!

Finito!

03/08/2019

The ancient Egyptian city of Heracleion was once a bustling trading port. Now, it lies 45 metres (about 148 feet) under the Mediterranean Sea. Recently, divers have revealed perhaps the best find since the submerged city was rediscovered two decades

21/07/2019

Nowe odkrycie w Aleksandrii: rzymska mozaika na Kom el-Dikka Lipiec 19, 2019autor aszy Po raz kolejny stanowisko Kom el-Dikka w Aleksandrii było sceną ważnego odkrycia: badacze z Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej UW odsłonili tam nową mozaikę z okresu rzymskiego. Stanowisko położone w...

03/06/2019

Polish archaeologists have discovered a 4th Century church in Egypt, which they say could be one of the oldest known Christian temples in Egypt.

25/05/2019

The Histories of Seneca the Elder, father of the Roman historian Seneca, have been found at the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum near Pompeii, Naples' National LIbrary Director Francesco Mercurio said Friday. © ANSA

29/03/2019

A new online resource: The Collaborative Database of Dateable Greek Bookhands. The CDDGB is a catalogue of objectively dated Greek manuscripts written in a literary script between 0-899 CE.

The CDDGB is embedded into the website below. A full-screen version is available by clicking “View Larger Version” in the bottom right corner. The data can also be arranged in different formats via the Grid/Gallery, Filter, Group, and Sort buttons at the top of the database. To view all of the d...

18/03/2019

Greek historian’s description of ‘baris’ vessel vindicated by archaeologists at sunken city of Thonis-Heraclion

09/03/2019

A response to recent queries about results of a 2016 review to identify unpublished New Testament fragments in the Society's Oxyrhynchus papyri collection.