Greek Verses on the Goddess Cybele from the Red Sea Port City of Berenike. Source: Steve Sidebotham
Greek Verses on the Goddess Cybele from the Red Sea Port City of Berenike.
The Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (DCLP), a new digital tool for researching ancient literature, is now available. Scholars from Heidelberg University and New York University (USA) spearheaded the development of the newly released open-access database, which offers information about and transcripts of Greek and Latin texts preserved on fragments of papyri, but also, for example, on ceramic shards or wooden tablets. The database is accessible to anyone and currently has information on nearly 15,000 fragments of ancient works. Approximately 1,000 of these entries include the corresponding Greek or Latin texts. Literary works by major authors such as Homer, Sappho and Virgil, as well as subliterary documents like medical tracts and grammars, are among the texts, which date between the 4th-century BC and 8th-century AD and originate from Egypt and other Mediterranean regions. The DCLP offers a number of research options and efficient search functions. It is designed particularly for scholars of ancient literature and culture, primarily classical philologists, theologians, and historians.
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