What is the APD for?
The Arabic Papyrology Database allows you to search Arabic documents on papyrus, parchment and paper
from the 7th up the 16th century A.D. - there are now 764 (out of ca. 2,000) at your disposal. Use this database to locate relevant historical
data, investigate linguistic peculiarities, find references and more.
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Who is the APD for?
Proper papyrologists, historians, philologists, editors,
professors, students: Specialists in Arabic studies, Islamic studies, history of the Middle East upt to the 10th/16th c., Islamic law,
linguisits, historians in general - just anyone dealing with Arabic documents.
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Requisits
Major working instructions and technical requirements, such as:
- Standard-Browser: Opera or FireFox (Settings: Unicode UTF-8)
- Latin Transcription: Keyboard Layout TSCR
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the
Arabic
Papyrology
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Simple Search
Look for specific information regarding the content of the Arabic papyri in stock. Look for words with diacritical dots to see all their references.
Search for lemmata or roots. Combine queries.
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Advanced Search
Look up words without diacritical dots to get an idea of how they
could be punctuated. Look up specific words for a certain place of origin
or period of time and search for grammatical forms. Investigate e.g. in official formulas of the 9th
century in al-Fayyum.
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Papyri
The "heart" of the database. Read entire documents. Compare edited texts and scans. Check editions.
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