The Laboratory of Papyrology and Epigraphy was officially established in 1998. According to the Laboratory's statutes and by-laws, the primary goal is teaching and researching in the fields of Papyrology and Epigraphy. The members of the Laboratory offer undergraduate courses and seminars on Papyrology and Epigraphy on a regular basis.
The Laboratory also welcomes mutual collaboration with colleagues, Institutes and Universities in Greece and abroad that share common interests.
Laboratory of Papyrology and Epigraphy
Department of Philology
Director
Konstantinos Spanoudakis, Professor, Dept. of Philology
Scientific Responsible: Nikos Litinas
Objectives
Topics
• The members of the Laboratory offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses and seminars on Papyrology and Epigraphy on a regular basis.
• The Laboratory΄s members deliver two-hour lectures on ancient writing materials in antiquity (papyrus, ostraca, tablets, parchment) to many Primary, Secondary and High Schools in Rethymnon, Chania and Herakleion, Crete.
• Archaeological excavations in Egypt.
• Editions of texts (documentary and literary), which were preserved in ancient materials (papyri, ostraca, tablets, inscriptions etc.).
Members
(FACULTY) Athanassaki Lucia, Apostolakis Konstantinos, Kavoulaki Athina, Panayotakis Stelios, Petraki Zacharoula, Spatharas Dimos, Spanoudakis Konstantinos, Tamiolaki Helen-Melina. (LABORATORY TEACHING STAFF) Nikos Litinas. (EMERITI PROFESSORS) Nikolaidis Anastasios, Paschalis Michael. (RETIRED FACULTY MEMBERS) Kambitsis Sophie.
Previous Directors: Tzifopoulos Yannis, Nikolaidis Anastasios, Paschalis Michael, Athanassaki Lucia.
Research Projects (after 2010)
Publications
- Nikos Litinas, “On the Usefulness of the north wind in a chreia Diogenis Cynici”, BASP 56, 2019, 39-53.
- Nikos Litinas, W.Graham Claytor and Elizabeth Nabney, “Labor Contracts from the Harthothes Archive”, BASP 53, 2016, 79-119.
- Nikos Litinas, “Un nuovo papiro di palmomanzia nell’Università del Michigan”, APF 60, 2014, 359-362.
- Nikos Litinas, “P.Corn. 34 recto: Just the Weft and Warp, After All!”, ZPE 191, 2014, 253-55.
- Nikos Litinas, R. James Cook, “A Fifth Century Receipt for the Delivery of Wheat from Karanis”, APF 60, 2014, 388-392.
- Nikos Litinas, “Accounts concerning Work of Weavers”, Tyche 28, 2013, 119-25 (Tafel 9).
- Nikos Litinas, “A Short Note on SB XXII 15793”, ZPE 183, 2013, 255-7.
- Nikos Litinas, Stephen M. Bay, “An Addition and Multiplication Table”, BASP 49, 2012, 15-9.
- Nikos Litinas, R. Caldwell, “P.Mich. invs. 4157a + 4170a: Petition and Exegetical Text on Matthew”, ZPE 183, 2012, 227-33.
- Nikos Litinas, “P.Mich. Inv. 1622 (= SB XVI 12589) + Inv. 1580”, ZPE 163, 2007, 191-4.
- Nikos Litinas, “P.Mich. inv. 1971: A Sale of an Animal”, ZPE 160, 2007, 202-204.
- Nikos Litinas, “P.Mich. inv. 4219: A Wooden Label Used as a Wooden Board and as a Mummy Label”, Ariadne 12, 2006, 123-130.
- Nikos Litinas, “The Lack of Linen-Weavers”, BASP 41. 2004, 115-18.
- Nikos Litinas, “List of Professional Groups”, no 22, σελ. 111-3 στο: D. Minutoli (επιμ.), Inediti offerti a Rosario Pintaudi per il suo 65° compleanno (P.Pintaudi), Firenze 2012, Edizioni Gonnelli.
- Nikos Litinas, “Receipt for Chaff”, σελ. 348-51 στο: Festschrift für Günter Poethke zum 70. Geburtstag (P. Poethke), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 55/2. Berlin: De Gruyter 2009.
- Nikos Litinas, “Register of Trees”, σελ. 112-15 στο: L. Eberhard Raimar, Holger Kockelmann, Stefan Pfeiffer and Maren Schentuleit (επιμ.), “...vor dem Papyrus sind alle gleich!”: papyrologische Beiträge zu Ehren von Bärbel Kramer (P. Kramer). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte 27. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2009.
- Nikos Litinas, “Day-to-day Account of Work”, no 12, σελ. 128-132 στο: James M. S. Cowey and Bärbel Kramer (επιμ.), PARAMONE. Editionen und Aufsätze von Mitgliedern des heidelberger Instituts für Papyrologie zwischen 1982 und 2004. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte 16. München/Leipzig: De Gruyter, 2004.
- Nikos Litinas, “P.Mich. inv. 3443”, σελ. 435-40 στο: Traianos Gagos† with Adam Hyatt (επιμ.), Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology. Ann Arbor, July 29-August 4, 2007. American Studies in Papyrology. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office, 2011.
- Nikos Litinas, “P.Corn inv. II 38, back”, σελ. 559-67 και Pl. XXIII στο: Jaakko Frösén, Tiina Purola and Erja Salmenkivi (επιμ.), Proceedings of the International Congress of Papyrology. Helsinki, 1-7 August, 2004, vol. II. Helsinki: Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 122:2. 2007.
- Nikos Litinas, Tebtynis III. Vessels’ Notations from Tebtynis, Le Caire, Institut français d’archeologie orientale, Le Caire, 2008, ISBN 978-2-7247-0467-9.
- Nikos Litinas, “Textes grecs. a. Inscriptions and Graffiti”, nos 55-65, σελ. 59-74 στο: Cl. Gallazzi (επιμ.), Τebtynis VI. Scripta Varia. Textes hiéroglyphiques, hiératiques, démotiques, araméens, grecs et coptes sur différents supports (S.V. Tebt. I), IFAO, Le Caire, 2018, FIFAO 78.
- Nikos Litinas, “Textes grecs. b. Stamps and Seals”, nos 66-71, σελ. 74-81 στο: Cl. Gallazzi (επιμ.), Τebtynis VI. Scripta Varia. Textes hiéroglyphiques, hiératiques, démotiques, araméens, grecs et coptes sur différents supports (S.V. Tebt. I), IFAO, Le Caire, 2018, FIFAO 78.
- Nikos Litinas, “Textes grecs. c. Verres”, no 72, σελ. 82-83 στο: Cl. Gallazzi (επιμ.), Τebtynis VI. Scripta Varia. Textes hiéroglyphiques, hiératiques, démotiques, araméens, grecs et coptes sur différents supports (S.V. Tebt. I), IFAO, Le Caire, 2018, FIFAO 78:
4-27. Nikos Litinas, Entries nos 12 (cuillère), 78 (figurine d’Athena), 140 (balle), 141 (toupie), 142 (fronde), 144 (poupée), 145 (poupée), 146 (poupée), 147 (oiseau en terre cuite), 148 (cheval en terre cuite), 166 (stele à inscription démotique), 167 (inscription grecque), 168 (palette de scribe), 169 (calame), 170 (ostracon hiératique : exercise scolaire ?), 172 (ostracon grec : exercise scolaire), 173 (ostracon grec : reçu), 176 (amphore inscrite), 177 (timbre amphorique), 178 (timbre amphorique latin), 179 (os avec texte démotique : compte), 183 (papyrus grecs : billets oraculaires), 184 (papyrus grecs : lettre), 185 (papyrus grec : reçus), στο: Cl. Gallazzi – G. Hadji-Minaglou (επιμ.), Trésors inattendus. 30 ans de fouilles et de cooperation à Tebtynis (Fayoum), BiGén 57, IFAO, Le Caire. 2019.
Papyri Universitatis Cretensis
Nikos Litinas, “Learning the Letters of the Alphabet in Byzantine Egypt (Papyrus Universitatis Cretensis 5)”, Ariadne 11, 2005, 181-7.
Edition of the inscriptions of Kymisala, Rhodes
Nikos Litinas, Anastasia Dreliossi-Herakleidou, “The Inscriptions of the Ancient Rhodian Deme of Kymissaleis”, σελ. 61-74 στο: Manolis I. Stefanakis (επιμ.), KYMISSALA. Archaeology – Education – Sustainability, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2017
* ONLY publications within the framework of the Research Programmes of the Laboratory are mentioned. There are also a number of monographs and other publications by members of the Laboratory in the field of Papyrology and Epigraphy, which are not mentioned above.
Events
- «International Workshop. What should we do with the fragments? A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step». Rethymnon, 5-6 May 2017, University of Crete, Department of Philology.
- Ivan Guermeur, Greek and Egyptian in Hellenistic Egypt: From the Court to the Chora.
- Ivan Guermeur, What the Hieratic papyri (excavations 1994-2010) tell us about the religious practices in Tebtynis during the Ptolemaic period
- Nikos Lazaridis, A journey within a journey: The investigation of an ancient Egyptian traveller’s graffito in Kharga Oasis
- Fabian Reiter, From the pot to the top: Big hitters on ostraca
- Fabian Reiter, Booze and Weeds in an Egyptian village? Problematic issues in the new ostraca from Tebtynis
- Marco Vespa, The animal presence in the ἠθικὴ στοιχείωσις by Hierocles the Philosopher. - School for making squeezes of ancient inscriptions: In the frame of the Seminar Ancient Greek Epigraphy of the Department of Philology during the Spring Semester 2014-2015 under the instruction of Nikos Litinas, a school for making squeezes of ancient inscriptions was organized in the site of Fortezza, Rethymnon, Crete in May 11, 2005, with the participation of undergraduate students, after permission given by the Department of Philology and the 25th Antiquities Service. Each student took a turn by repeatedly beating the wet special paper (bought and provided by the Department to the students) with a special brush until every incision of the inscription was reproduced in order to indicate the size and the depth of carved letters, and to capture a negative impression of a carved inscription.
- Nikos Litinas and Panagiota Vlachaki participated in the conference “Epigraphy on Ceramics”, Ghent, December 17-18, 2015 with the paper «Inscriptions on ceramics found in caves in ancient Greece». See http://www.rsrc.ugent.be/epigraphy_on_ceramics. Organisers: Wim Broekaert, Arjan Zuiderhoek, Alain Delattre, Emmanuel Duprez, Bruno Rochette
- June 7, 2014: In the frame of the Seminar Ancient Greek Epigraphy of the Department of Philology during the Spring Semester 2013-2014, under the instruction of Nikos Litinas, the undergraduated students visited the site of the Ancient Gortyna, in order to see "the Queen of the legal inscriptions", the earliest law code preserved in Europe, as well as other inscriptions kept in the store room of the ancient site.
Collaborations/ Affiliations
- January 2016. Cooperation between the University of Sohag, Egypt, and the University of Crete (Laboratory of Papyrology and Epigraphy) concerning scientific and technical issues in the fields of Papyrology and Epigraphy.
- Because of the cooperation between the University of Michigan and the Laboratory of Papyrology and Epigraphy in the frame of the Project APIS, Nikos Litinas took over the publication of papyrus fragments kept in the Michigan Collection.
Contact
Tel.: (+30) 28310 77380
E-mail: erpe@phl.uoc.gr, litinasn@uoc.gr
