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Ancient World

Included are collections from the ancient Near East, including some 1,300 cuneiform tablets (especially from the 3rd Dynasty of Ur) and 241 stone seals (ranging in age from Akkadian and Sumerian examples of the 2nd and 3rd millenia B.C. to Persian exasmples of the Sassanian period); some 1,250 literary, Christian, and documentary papyri in all the languages and scripts of Egypt from the Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic periods. Most of the clay tablets are listed in Edward Chiera, Catalog of the Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets in the Princeton University Library (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Library, 1921). For editions of 191 Princeton papyri, see Alan Chester Johnson and Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen, eds., Papyri in the Princeton University Collections (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1931), 1 vol.; and Allen Chester Johnson and Sidney Pullman Goodrich, eds., Papyri in the Princeton University Collections (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1936-42), 2 vols. For a full, up-to-date inventory of Princeton papyri and selected digital images of papyri, go to the "Princeton University Library Papyrus Home Page" at http://www.princeton.edu/papyrus/.


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