ANC. Ancient Texts

Scope and Contents

Twenty-eight clay tablets with text in cuneiform script, dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur, the Old Babylonian period, the reign of Sîn-kasid, and Neo-Babylonian period.  Known geographical sources include Umma, Puzris-Dagan, Girsu, and Uruk.

Online Copies Available

Digital photographs of all items in this collection are available on the FSU Digital Library: Cuneiform Tablet Collection

Scope and Contents

Thirty-three clay pottery fragments comprising thirty-two texts in Greek and Latin documenting the activities of a Roman Army unit stationed near Edfu, Egypt.

Online Copies Available

Digital images and item-level description of the Greek and Latin Ostraka can be found in the FSU Digital Library.

Scope and Contents

Twenty-six fragments of papyrus with Greek text. Sixteen fragments are known to be orders to bankers to pay out various sums.

Finding aid includes citations for text descriptions in Roger S. Bagnall & R. Bogaert, "Orders For Payment From a Banker's Archive: Papyri in the Collection of Florida State University." Ancient Society 6 (1975): 79-108.

Online Copies Available

https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:papyriandostraka

Scope and Contents The set includes examples of early printed leaves, manuscript leaves, as well as a Babylonian clay tablet and cylinder seal, Egyptian papyri, etc. Each leaf is mounted on a black sheet of heavy paper. The leaves have been rehoused from their original black leather, drop-front clamshell cases. Online Copies Available Digital photographs of items in this collection are available on the FSU Digital Library: ...