Egyptian Inscriptions Database

Ancient Egypt, linked
across every collection.

Most catalogues stop at one institution's holdings. This one stitches them together: a papyrus's edited text, the scholarly record of its date and findspot, and the collection's record of the physical papyrus, joined by a shared Trismegistos number. 217,442 records from 20 museums, excavation archives, and text corpora, of which 25,665 are photographed and 79,409 carry inscribed text. Every record is traceable to its source, and AI-assisted readings are marked as such.

Try complaint about a stolen donkey spell for safe passage to the afterlife contract for the sale of land plain English, matched by meaning against Greek, Coptic and Egyptian text
217,442
Records
25,665
Photographed
79,581
Inscriptions
30,200
Translations
674,827
Cross-references
98,581
TM spine bridges
18,508
AI-analyzed images

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One text, three databases

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Papyrology splits a text's description across projects by design: the edition lives in one database, its date and findspot in another, the physical papyrus in a third. A shared Trismegistos number puts them back together, and the joined record is what fills in dates and findspots the individual records never carried.

TM 11999

Tax rolls from Karanis

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite no 172-173 A.D.
  • APIS-papyrus the physical papyrus
  • DDbDP-text the edited text
  • HGV-meta date and findspot
TM 10599

Register of Tax Payments

Philadelphia, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoi 35 A.D.
  • APIS-papyrus the physical papyrus
  • DDbDP-text the edited text
  • HGV-meta date and findspot

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The corpus is also navigable by concept. Each name gathers objects across every source.

Deities Horus 1727Amun 965Ptah 792Osiris 705Isis 622Bes 435Hathor 426Ra 406Thoth 396Aten 383Taweret 338Montu 297
Places Giza 14233Amarna (Akhetaten) 8766Oxyrhynchus 7547Arsinoite nome 5513Thebes 4564Karanis 4158Lisht 3934Deir el-Bahri 3148Asasif 2911Saqqara 2777Philadelphia (Arsinoites) 2615Abu Mena 2555

Sources

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text45,000 Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata42,020 Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri34,992 Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access)27,972 Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM)21,971 ORAEC (Online Resource for Ancient Egyptian Corpus)13,026 Harvard/MFA Giza Archives11,031 Tell el-Amarna Project (Cambridge/EES) — Object Database7,386 Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, SMB Berlin3,336 Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art2,786 British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan1,644 Cleveland Museum of Art (Egyptian)1,328 Art Institute of Chicago (Egyptian)1,244 Walters Art Museum (Egyptian)1,070 Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian)729 Smithsonian — National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA)575 Smithsonian — NMNH - Anthropology Dept. (NMNHANTHRO)500 ISAC Chicago — Integrated Database (Egyptian)500 Manchester Museum — Egypt and Sudan collection320 Leiden RMO — Egyptian collection12