Editing Elephantine papyri and ostraca (section)

===Publication history===
[[File:Elephantinetemple.png|thumb|Elephantine temple environs layout. From major work, Arthur Cowley's 1923 "Aramaic Papyri." ]]

The publication of the documents from Elephantine discovered in the 19th and early 20th centuries, took many years, and is still ongoing.{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}} The Aramaic and Demotic texts have received the greatest and most complete focus from scholars.{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}}

Aramaic{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}}
* 1824–1828: [[Turin Aramaic Papyrus]]
* 1887: [[Julius Euting]] publishes the ''Dream ostracon'' (later known as [[Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum|CIS]] II 137)<ref>Euting, 1887, [https://archive.org/details/sitzungsberichte1887deut/page/407/mode/1up Epigraphische Miscellen], Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: "...erster Vertreter dieser Gattung hervorzuheben ist..."</ref><ref>Levine, Baruch A. “Notes on an Aramaic Dream Text from Egypt.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 84, no. 1, American Oriental Society, 1964, pp. 18–22, https://doi.org/10.2307/597058.</ref>
* 1889: The [[Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum]] publishes the Greville Chester ostraca as [[Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum|CIS]] II 138–139 and the Golenishchev ostraca as [[Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum|CIS]] II 154–155
* 1903: [[Arthur Cowley (librarian)|Arthur Cowley]] published the papyrus and ostraca found by Sayce in 1901<ref>Three publications in the ''Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology'', 1903: [https://archive.org/details/proceedings25soci/page/202/mode/1up p. 202 et seq], [https://archive.org/details/proceedings25soci/page/259/mode/1up p. 259 et seq] and [https://archive.org/details/proceedings25soci/page/311/mode/1up p. 311 et seq]</ref>
* 1903: [[Julius Euting]] published the Strasbourg Aramaic papyrus which had been discovered in 1898–1899<ref>Euting Julius. Notice sur un papyrus égypto-araméen de la Bibliothèque impériale de Strasbourg. In: Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres de l'Institut de France. Première série, Sujets divers d'érudition. Tome 11, 2e partie, 1904. pp. 297–312. DOI : https://doi.org/10.3406/mesav.1904.1089 www.persee.fr/doc/mesav_0398-3587_1904_num_11_2_1089</ref>
* 1906: Sayce and Cowley published the Cecil-Mond documents in the high profile ''Aramaic Papyri Discovered at Assuan''. A sensation was caused; as they summarized in the introduction to the work: "Perhaps one of the most remarkable results of the discovery is the proof it affords us that within a century after the death of Jeremiah a colony of Jews had found their way to Assuan, at the southern limit of Egypt, where they had acquired houses and other property and were engaged in trade as bankers or money-lenders"<ref>* Sayce and Cowley, [https://archive.org/details/233-urn-nbn-de-hebis-30-1-173784 Aramaic Papyri Discovered at Assuan], (London, 1906), page 10</ref>
* 1911: [[Eduard Sachau]] published all the Rubensohn Aramaic finds which had been discovered in 1907
* 1923: [[Arthur Cowley (librarian)|Arthur Cowley]] published 87 Aramaic papyri, all that were then known, in his ''Aramaic Papyri of the fifth century'' 
* 1953: [[Emil Kraeling]] published the Brooklyn Museum papyri, which had been discovered in 1893
* 1960: [[Edda Bresciani]] published the [[Padua Aramaic papyri]] which had been found in 1815–1819
* 1966: Bresciani and Murad Kamil published the [[Hermopolis Aramaic papyri]] discovered in 1945

Demotic{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}}
* 1883: ''P. Dodgson'' was published by [[Eugène Revillout]]
* 1908: [[Wilhelm Spiegelberg]] published 13 Rubensohn papyri found in 1906-07
* 1926–1928: Wilhelm Spiegelberg published ''P. Lob'' and three further Berlin demotic papyri
* 1939–1957: Wolja Erichsen published six Berlin demotic papyri
* 1962 Edda Bresciani published the Padua demotic papyrus found in 1819
* 1963–1965: Wolja Erichsen and [[:de:Erich Lüddeckens|Erich Lüddeckens]] published the two Vienna papyri found in 1899
* 1971–1978: [[:de: Karl-Theodor Zauzich|Karl-Theodor Zauzich]] catalogued 333 Berlin demotic papyri, publishing 20 in 1978 and 29 in 1993
* 1974: [[:fr: Michel Malinine|Michel Malinine]] published the Moscow papyrus found in 1909

Greek{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}}
* 1828: [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]] published ''P. Edmonstone'', found in 1819
* 1822: [[Antoine-Jean Saint-Martin]] published a Greek fragment found in 1821, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale
* 1828: The Leiden papyrus was published shortly after its discovery
* 1907: The two major Greek papyri found by Rubensohn were published a year after their discovery
* 1911: Sachau published another Greek Rubensohn fragment 
* 1912: [[Friedrich Preisigke]] published the Strasbourg papyrus
* 1914: [[Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg]] and [[Leopold Wenger]] published the part of the Patermouthis archive acquired by the Munich museum in 1908
* 1917: [[Idris Bell]] published the part of the Patermouthis archive acquired by the British museum
* 1922: [[Wilhelm Schubart]] and Ernst Kühn published the three Abd el-Megid papyri in Berlin 
* 1940: [[:fr: Paul Collart|Paul Collart]] published the Greek fragment from the 1901–1902 Reinach collection in the Sorbonne 
* 1950: André Bataille published two of the Clermont-Ganneau Greek papyri donated to the Académie des Inscriptions in 1907–1908
* 1967: [[:nl: Pieter Johannes Sijpesteijn|Pieter Johannes Sijpesteijn]] published the Wisconsin papyrus discovered in 1926
* 1980: William Brasher published two fragments from the 1907–1908 Zucker excavations

Hieratic{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}}
* 1895: Spiegelberg published the Butehamun letters, first acquired in 1817–18
* 1911: [[Georg Möller]] transcribed a letter from the Berlin museum purchased in 1896
* 1924: [[T. Eric Peet]] published one of the Turin hieratic pieces from the Drovetti Collection found in 1824
* 1939: [[Jaroslav Černý (Egyptologist)|Jaroslav Černý]] published two of the Turin hieratic pieces from the Drovetti Collection found in 1824
* 1945: Paul C. Smither published the "Semna Despatches", discovered in 1898
* 1948: A Berlin leather piece discovered in 1930 was published
* 1951: [[Alan Gardiner]] published P. Valençay, which had been discovered in 1862–63
* 1974: [[Wolfhart Westendorf]] published the Berlin medical papyrus fragment, discovered 1906–1908
* 1978: [[Paule Posener-Kriéger]] published the Clermont-Ganneau papyrus, found in 1907

Another forty catalogued hieratic fragments in the Berlin Museum await publication.{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}}

Coptic{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}}
* 1905: [[Henry Hall (Egyptologist)|Henry Hall]] published a Coptic ostracon donated to the British Museum after 1877
* 1921 and 1995: [[Walter Ewing Crum]] (transcription) and [[Sarah Clackson]] (translation and commentary) published three Coptic fragments acquired by Rusafjaell
* 1938: [[Reginald Engelbach]] published a Coptic ostraca discovered by Clermont-Ganneau and Clédat
* 1939: Ewing Crum published a Coptic fragment donated to the Bristol Museum in 1930
* 1977: [[Fritz Hintze]] published the Coptic ostraca unearthed in the 1907–08 German excavations

Arabic{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}}
* 1937: A fragment given to the Hamburg museum in 1911 was published in 1937
* 1941: A fragment given to the Chicago museum in 1920 was published in 1941

Latin{{sfn|Porten|1996|pp=7–11}}
* 1979: Two Latin fragments discovered by Rubensohn in 1907 were published in 1979