Tebtunis Archive
The Tebtunis Papyri Archive (capitalized) of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, is the largest collection of texts on papyrus in the Americas.
The phrase Tebtunis archive (uncapitalized) may also be used for the papyri from family archives found at Tebtunis.
The Tebtunis papyri are written in either Demotic or Hellenistic era Greek and were found during a single expedition led by two British papyrologists in the winter of 1899/1900 at the village of ancient Tebtunis (near modern Umm-el-Baragat), Egypt. The papyri can be divided into three groups based on their provenance:
- Texts from the crocodile mummies
- Texts from the town and from the temple of Soknebtunis
- Texts from the cartonnage of human mummies
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