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Hamburg, Bibliothek

Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky
Papyrusabteilung
Von-Melle-Park 3
D-20146 Hamburg
Deutschland

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TM number	Collection	Material	Language	Century	Publication

TM 58228	Hamburg, Bibliothek dem. 52	papyrus	Demotic	BC04 - BC01	Dem. Conf. VII (Copenhagen 1999) p. 254 no. 52 descr.
TM 41472	Hamburg, Bibliothek dem. 6	papyrus	Demotic / Greek	BC01	P. Hawara 17 b
TM 41466	Hamburg, Bibliothek dem. 7	papyrus	Demotic / Greek	BC01	P. Hawara 13
TM 41470	Hamburg, Bibliothek dem. 8	papyrus	Demotic / Greek	BC01	P. Hawara 16 b
TM 41478	Hamburg, Bibliothek dem. 9	papyrus	Demotic	BC01	P. Hawara 22
TM 11373	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 1	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Hamb. 1 15
TM 21046	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 100	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Hamb. 1 38
TM 13936	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 101	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4435
TM 998556	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 1011	papyrus	Greek		ZPE 229 (2024), p. 68-74
TM 13949	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 102	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4448
TM 13937	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 103	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4436
TM 13942	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 104	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4441
TM 13953	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 105	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4452
TM 13952	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 106	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4451
TM 13951	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 107	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4450
TM 13940	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 108	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4439
TM 13947	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 109	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4446
TM 63102	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 11	papyrus	Greek	AD03 - AD04	P. Hamb. 2 134
TM 13944	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 110	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4443
TM 13943	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 111	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4442
TM 13948	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 112	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4447
TM 13955	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 113	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4454
TM 13939	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 114	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4438
TM 13954	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 115	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4453
TM 13950	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 116	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4449
TM 13938	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 117	papyrus	Greek	AD03	SB 1 4437
TM 21042	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 12	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Hamb. 1 19
TM 41544	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 120	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Hamb. 4 242
TM 41551	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 121	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Hamb. 4 243
TM 41439	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 129	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Hamb. 3 226
TM 78285	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 13	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Hamb. 4 268
TM 219307	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 130	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Bagnall 30
TM 15335	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 132	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Hamb. 3 223
TM 41393	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 136	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Hamb. 4 250
TM 78270	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 144	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Hamb. 4 240
TM 26516	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 147 Ro	papyrus	Greek	AD02 - AD03	P. Hamb. 3 224
TM 26517	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 147 Vo	papyrus	Greek	AD02 - AD03	P. Hamb. 3 225
TM 5129	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 149	papyrus	Greek	BC03	P. Hamb. 1 25
TM 11438	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 15	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Hamb. 3 220
TM 15333	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 152	papyrus	Greek	AD06	P. Hamb. 3 216
TM 702532	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 156	papyrus	Greek	AD06 - AD07	P. Gascou 35
TM 78272	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 157	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Hamb. 4 244
TM 78282	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 158	papyrus	Greek	AD04	P. Hamb. 4 263
TM 32905	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 159	papyrus	Greek	AD04	P. Hamb. 4 267
TM 63254	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 16	papyrus	Greek	AD01 - AD02	P. Hamb. 2 133
TM 32304	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 164	papyrus	Greek	AD04	P. Hamb. 3 215
TM 21040	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 17 Ro	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Hamb. 1 18 Ro
TM 21041	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 17 Vo	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Hamb. 1 18 Vo descr.
TM 37265	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 174	papyrus	Greek	AD06 - AD07	P. Hamb. 1 56
TM 21049	Hamburg, Bibliothek gr. 175 Ro	papyrus	Greek	AD06	P. Hamb. 1 68 Ro

Numbering

[31.10.06]
- Cod. Theol., number 2029
- dem., numbers from 1 till 52
- gr., numbers from 6 till 782
- NS, number 1002
- Pap. Bil., number 1

Conservation

Most papyri are kept between glass.

Inventarisation

Publications

P.Hamb. 01-03

P.dem. Hawara Lüddeckens (2000) contains 15 papyri from Hamburg. They belong to the archive of Hawara undertakers.

M.Salvo, La collezione dei papiri di Amburgo. Nuove prospettive, in:

A.Dietrich, Arabische Papyri aus der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Leipzig 1937 (19 documents on papyrus and 1 on linen); IDEM, Arabische Briefe aus der Papyrussammlung der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg 1955 (69 letters)

Work

A fourth volume of 38 Greek Hamburg papyri is in preparation by B. Kramer and D. Hagedorn.

A catalogue and publication of the remaining demotic papyri, mostly from the Fayum area, is being prepared by C. La'da, who will also publish the 34 most interesting items; cf. C.A.La’da, Die Demotic Papyrus Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, in: K. Ryholt (ed.), Acts of the Seventh Intern. Conference of Demotic Studies, Copenhagen 1999, pp.249-254.

Highlights

P.Hamb. bil. 1 : a bilingual papyrus codex, consisting of 56 pages, with a previously unknown Greek version of the Acta Pauli and fragments of the Old Testament in Fayumic Coptic and in Greek and Coptic [ LDAB 3138 ]

19 libelli of the Decian persecution, from Theadelpheia

History

For a general survey and history of the Hamburg collection, see M. Salvo, La collezione dei papiri di Amburgo. Nuove prospettive, in: I.Andorlini e.a., Atti del XXII Congresso di Papirologia, Firenze 1998, (Firenze 2001), pp.1161-1166.

The collection consists of about 1000 papyri :Greek and Latin (782 papyri inventoried, of which ca. 450 are still unpublished), Demotic 53 papyri), Coptic (16 unpublished papyri) and Arabic (80 papyri, 52 paper documents, 1 parchment and 1 text on linen), and 6 unpublished ostraca.