T he Center for the Tebtunis Papyri (CTP) aims to support and promote new research, graduate student training and international collaboration in the decipherment of the largely unstudied Tebtunis Papyri. Excavated at the turn of the last century at the Greco-Roman site of Tebtunis, the papyri are held by The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

CTP was created in 2000 as an Organized Research Project (ORP) supported by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Additional support is provided by The Bancroft Library, the Dean of Arts and Humanities in the College of Letters and Science, the Department of Classics, and donors. The CTP is guided by an Advisory Committee representing the Departments of Classics, Near Easter Studies and History, the Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, and The Bancroft Library.

As a result of the formation of CTP, The Bancroft Library has been able to hire papyrologist and curator Todd Hickey, who also teaches courses on papyrology and other topics related to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. Dr. Hickey is the first papyrologist employed by the University in nearly thirty years. Since his arrival in 2001, steady progress has been made in the conservation, digitization, decipherment and publication of the Tebtunis papyri. By training students, CTP has added papyrology to the strengths of the already world-class Classics and Ancient History and Mediterranean Archeology programs at Berkeley.

Advisory Committee

• Anthony Bliss, Rare Books and Special Collections, The Bancroft Library
• Professor A. W. Bulloch, Classics
• Professor S. Elm, History and AHMA
• Professor M. Griffith, Classics
• Professor E. S. Gruen, History, Classics, and AHMA
• Associate Professor C. Hallett, Art History, Classics, and AHMA
• Professor A. A. Long, Classics
• Professor D. J. Mastronarde, Classics, Director of CTP and Committee Chair
• Associate Professor C. A. Redmount, Near Eastern Studies and AHMA

Contact information:

Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
University of California
c/o Donald Mastronarde, Director
Department of Classics
7233 Dwinelle Hall #2520
Berkeley CA 94720-2520
U.S.A.

phone: 510-642-4099
fax: 510-643-2959
e-mail: djmastronarde@berkeley.edu

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Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
University of California
c/o Todd Hickey,
Bancroft Library
Berkeley CA 94720-6000
U.S.A.

phone: 510-642-4556
fax: 510-642-7589
e-mail: thickey@library.berkeley.edu