Online resources

Institutions, centers for study and research

1. Dime On-line - Prosopography of Soknopaiou Nesos
   Site (in German only) edited by Dr. Maren Schentuleit, Göttingen: it offers very detailed prosopographical records for Greek and Demotic names from Soknopaiou Nesos-Dime, an important administrative center in the Fayyum of Ptolemaic age.
   
2. The Demotic Dictionary Project
   The dictionary, edited by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, is not yet complete; all the same, twenty-three letters have been published.
   
3. The Demotic Palaeographical Database
   Site of the project on Demotic palaeography maintained by Heidelberg University. The site provides a corpus and a palaeographic section containing regional variations and maps.
   

Study and research centers

1. Princeton University
   The site is part of the APIS Project (Advanced Papyrological Information System) at Princeton University and in collaboration with Columbia University, Duke University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan and Yale University.
   
2. Università di Lecce, Centro di Studi Papirologici - Papiri Demotici
   The Center for Papyrology - Demotic Papyri at the University of Lecce was founded in 1992 by Prof. Mario Capasso. It has initiated a number of interesting projects in papyrology, including the Papyrus Collection of the University of Lecce, the journal Studi Papirologici Papyrologica Lupiensia, and a critical edition of the Corpus of Greek and Latin Historical Papyri. Since 1996 it is involved in the "Progetto PUL" (Papyrologica Universitatis Lupiensis), for the digital reproduction and electronic use of papyri and of the critical editions of the Center. Here photographs of ten Demotic papyri can be found.
   
3. Leids Payrologisch Instituut
   Page of the Leiden Papyrological Institute on the institute's activities with a special section on the publications of its collections of Greek, Latin, Demotic and abnormal hieratic papyri as well as of other international collections.
   

Academic materials

1. Demotische Wortliste Online
   Database in which it is possible to do online research of transcribed Demotic words, edited by the Demotist Friedhelm Hoffmann. Research can be done by whole or partial words, and by determinatives.
   
2. Johnson J.H., Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy - An Introductory Grammar of Demotic, SAOC 45, 2000
   The earliest grammar for learning the basics of Demotic, indispensable and made available online by the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the Oriental Institute).
   
3. Johnson J-H., The Demotic Verbal System, 2004
   Second edition with corrections (2004) of this in-depth analysis of the Demotic verbal system, based on texts from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, highlighting differences with Late Egyptian.
   
4. M. Depaw, A Companion to Demotic Studies
   M. Depaw, A Companion to Demotic Studies, Brussels 1997, downloadable in PDF from the Ancient World Digital Library of the New York University
   

Images

1. The Digital Library of Inscriptions and Calligraphies - Bibliotheca Alexandrina
   Galleries of images with brief (sometimes inaccurate) descriptive cards; inscriptions are organized by supports (architecture, textiles, jewelry, furniture, etc.) and not by writing system, but this is a good reason to browse through the galleries in search of Coptic, Demotic, hieratic and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Curated by the Library of Alexandria, which has become a center for digital humanities whose projects, however, do not always live up to expectations.
   

Texts

1. VOLTEN A., Kopenhagener Texte zum Demotischen Weisheitsbuch (pap. Carlsberg II, III verso, IV verso und V), Analecta Aegyptiaca I, Einar Munksgaard, Kopenhagen 1940
   First volume of the Analecta Aegyptiaca made available online by the University of Chicago.
   
2. VOLTEN A., Das Demotische Weisheitsbuch. Studien und Bearbeitung, Analecta Aegyptiaca II, Einar Munksgaard, Kopenhagen 1941
   Second volume of the Analecta Aegyptiaca made available online by the University of Chicago.
   
3. VOLTEN A., Demotische Traumdeutung (pap. Carlsberg XIII und XIV verso), Analecta Aegyptiaca III, Einar Munksgaard, Kopenhagen 1942
   Third volume of the Analecta Aegyptiaca made available online by the University of Chicago
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4. MAIRS R., A Bilingual Account from the Aswan Quarries (O.Brookl.Dem. 180 / P.Brookl. 81), in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor 2007, American Studies in Papyrology, Ann Arbor 2010, pp. 463-470
   A brief study of a bilingual Demotic and Greek ostracon whose contents refer to mining activities near Aswan around the 1st century AD.
   
5. Trismegistos Online Publications (TOP)
   A series of high-level scholarly publications edited by W. Clarysse (K.U.Leuven), M. Depauw (K.U.Leuven) and H.J. Thissen (Universität zu Köln), connected with the Trismegistos project.
   
6. CRUZ-URIBE, E. Saite and Persian Demotic Cattle Documents
   E. Cruz-Uribe, Saite and Persian Demotic Cattle Documents, Chico 1985, downloadable in PDF from the Ancient World Digital Library of the New York University
   
7. WORP K.A., Greek, Greek/Demotic and Demotic Mummy Labels
   K.A. Worp, Greek, Greek/Demotic and Demotic Mummy Labels, Madrid 2017, downloadable in .pdf format from the site of the project Death on the Nile
   

Fonts

1. The great range of signs and ligatures and the wide differences in hand writing have to date discouraged a standardisation of Demotic and a subsequent creation of Demotic fonts for printing texts: the ostrakon and papyri editions frequently still have a parallel facsimile near the photos. The Chicago Demotic Dictionary itself also adopted the use of digital scans of each writing system, taken from pictures and facsimiles. A recent attempt to standardise was made by the editor of the site Egyptology Lessons, for the uniliteral signs only, therefore of limited use. The link points to a Dropbox folder https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uy1two8sy3o41kh/AAC4EKfQP1gvauf3FoPcxzuWa?dl=0
   

Museums and collections

1. Papyrus und Ostraka Projekt: Halle, Jena, Leipzig
   The joint project between the Universities of Halle, Jena and Leipzig has enabled the cataloging, digitization and online publication of the papyrological collections (papyri and ostraca) of the three universities. There are detailed entries and images of texts in Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic and Coptic, as well as in Greek, Latin and Arabic.
   
2. DVCTVS - [Spanish] National Papyrological Funds
   A database that allows users to search all digitized papyrological collections in Germany in a uniform and standardized way. The included collections are those of Berlin, Bonn, Bremen, Erlangen, Giessen, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, Cologne, Leipzig, Trier, and Würzburg. It is possible to search papyri by language, including Demotic, Hieratic, Coptic and Hieroglyphic.
   
3. Papyrus de la Bibliothèque de Genève
   Papyri from the Library of Geneva. An online catalog with a simple but effective search engine that allows users to browse the collection, see enlarged images, and read papyrus catalog cards. There are Coptic and Demotic documents, as well as Greek, Latin and Arabic. The search also allows the display of Demotic-Greek and Greek-Coptic bilingual documents.

   
4. BerlPap - Berliner Papyrusdatenbank
   Online catalog of the papyri from the Berlin Museums. There are 155 Greco-Demotic papyri, 2 Greco-Ancient-Coptic papyri and 7 Greco-Coptic papyri.
   
5. Duke Papyrus Archive
   Images and description of the papyri of the Duke Collection.
   
6. Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek - Katalog der Papyrussammlung
   The Papyrological Collection of the Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, with more than 180,000 items, is one of the largest in the world. This digital catalogue, available only in German, offers images (front and back, with scale) of the published part of the Collection - mainly of papyri. Searches can be made chronologically, by name, by material, by language and by type of document. Edited by Sophie Kovarik
   
7. The Papyrus Carlsberg Collection - University of Copenhagen
   This collection was founded in the 1930s by Prof. H. O. Lange. In 2003 it absorbed the Papyrus Hauniense Collection as well, which contains a number of Greek and Latin papyri. It contains nearly all of the Temple Library of Tebtunis (Fayyum, Egypt) and papyri from Edfu, Gebelein, Hawara, Hermopolis, Mendes, Philadelphia and Thebes
   
8. Papyrus Portal
   A database that allows users to search all digitized papyrological collections in Germany in a uniform and standardized way. The included collections are those of Berlin, Bonn, Bremen, Erlangen, Giessen, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, Cologne, Leipzig, Trier, and Würzburg. It is possible to search papyri by language, including Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, and Coptic.
   
9. Turin Papyrus Online Platform
   Catalogue of the papyrological collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, with comprehensive entries, high-resolution images and a user-friendly and effective search tool. Eleven Demotic papyri are currently included.
   

Collections of texts and digital libraries

1. Digital Egypt for Universities
   Excellent site, published by the University College of London and the Petrie Museum, and edited by Stephen Quirke, director of this museum. Offers four Demotic texts.
   
2. Trismegistos
   An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources dealing with Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800. There are very rich databases of metadata on papyrus and parchment.
   
3. Trismegistos Magic
   TM-Magic is the first thematic database hosted by Trismegistos and tries to fill a gap between projects such as the LDAB, HGV and BCD by collecting metadata of somewhat "dubious" nature: all things "religion", "ritual", "magic" and "divination" / "mantike". Trismegistos is an interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources dealing with Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800.
   
4. Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB)
   This database storing metadata contains at the moment 15,543 Greek, Latin, Coptic and Demotic literary texts. The project is part of the portal Trismegistos which deals with texts in different writing systems from Egypt between 800 BC and 800 AD.
   
5. Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic Texts (DAHT)
   This database (13,628 entries), part of the Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt project, is coordinated by the well-known Demotist M. Depauw on the basis of the earlier database of H.J. Thissen and of the Prosopographia Ptolemaica della Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (http://prosptol.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/).
   
6. Perseus Digital Library
   Edited by Gregory Crane, Professor of Classics at Tufts University, this digital library offers texts of many different Greek and Latin classics, the papyri of the Duke Collection and some English Renaissance texts.
   
7. ARTStor: Dura-Europos Documents
   ARTstor Digital Library in collaboration with Yale University has digitalized more than 300 images from the university's papyrological collection. The Dura-Europos papyri were discovered in 1930 and include texts written in Greek, Latin, Demotic, Coptic and Arabic. A subscription is required.
   
8. Oriental Institute Demotic Ostraca Online (O.I.D.O.O.)
   Ongoing digital publication of about 900 Demotic ostraka from the Oriental Institute in Chicago. Links to the printed volumes can be found on the page but the database, accessible through the portal OCHRE, does not seem to work.
   

Bibliography

1. Checklist of Editions of greek, latin, demotic and coptic papyri, ostraca and tablets
   A bibliographic database for monographs only (journal articles are mostly not listed) of documentary texts on papyrus, ostracon, parchment and wooden tablets in Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic. The Demotic section, which is edited with the greatest attention, includes reprints and new editions and it is in part based on the work of S. P. Vleeming and A.A. den Brinker (Checklist of Demotic Text Editions and Re-editions, Leiden 1993).
   
2. Demotistische Literaturübersicht - Enchoria
   The Demotistische Literaturübersicht, published in the journal Enchoria since 1971, is an essential instrument for bibliographic research on Demotic. The online version of the database is edited by the Demotists H. J. Thissen, H. Felber, M. Depauw and F. Hoffmann. Like the entry below, this site is part of the Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt project .