Gallery

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From Trace to Text: Interpreting Papyrus

Papyrus fragments that have not yet been conserved or studied.

Papyrus rolls found in a hollow threshold of a door in Karanis, Egypt, in the 1920s.

Boxes used to transport papyri from Egypt to Ann Arbor in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Roll of papyrus in the process of being unrolled. What text will be hidden inside?

Leyla Lau-Lamb, papyrus conservator for the Michigan Papyrus Collection, is shown here in the process of unrolling the roll.

P.Mich.inv. 4694a (P.Mich. IX 522)

A first transcript of P.Mich. inv. 4964a.

P.Mich.inv. 5457 verso (P.Bingen 113)

P.Bingen (2002)

P.Mich.inv. 104 (P.Mich. III 176)

P.Mich. III (Herbert Youtie Collection)

P.Mich.inv. 4453a verso

Infrared photo of P.Mich.inv. 4453a verso.

Highlights from the University of Michigan Papyrus Collection

Euclid, Elements I, Definitions 1-10

P.Mich.inv. 925 recto

Letter from Apollinarius to his Mother, Taesis

Letter from Apollinarius to his Mother, Taesis (verso)

Epistles of Paul, Romans 16:23 - Hebrews 1:7

Epistles of Paul, Hebrews 1:7 - 2:3

Sketch of an Elephant with Two Figures

P.Mich.inv. 4290 recto.

Birth certificate of Herennia Gemella

New Discoveries

Sole of a small shoe

Documentary papyri from a mummy casing

Bracelet with papyrus rolls