Papyrological Resources in Perseus

PLEASE NOTE: As of 2008, the DDBDP-specific searching tools are not reliable and will not be restored or repaired. They are offered as-is. The DDBDP collection is accessible in Perseus 4, linked above, but there are no collection-specific tools. The DDBDP is working on improvements to the collection. We will post new information as it becomes available. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The Perseus Project is pleased to host the WWW version of the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP), an electronic edition of nearly 500 papyrus volumes. For more information about the publications in the DDBDP, see the Checklist of Editions of Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets.

Perseus provides four basic tools for accessing these papyri:

Browsing: You may simply wish to browse through the text of the papyri. Go to the table of contents or browse the papyri by site. For example, here is the BGU collection.
Simple String Searching: Search for strings or lists of strings in one publication or in the entire corpus. Here is a search for "pemp" at the beginning of a word:
Simple Lexical Searching: Search for all of the morphological forms of a given word. Here is a search for all the forms of "ferô":
Complex Searching with Date and Place Search for combinations of strings and lexemes, with the option of restricting searches by date and place. Here is a search for forms of "stratêgos" from the Arsinoite nome in the second century B.C.:

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