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to a full text transcription when available. Both the metadata record for each papyrus and its text have
static URLs for easy cit<strong>in</strong>g and l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g.
Another papyrus portal that has recently become available is DVCTVS, 473 a project that aims to
ultimately serve as a national papyri portal for Spa<strong>in</strong>. The creation of this project <strong>in</strong>volves four
organizations: the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, the
Abadia de Montserrat, and the Companyia de Jesús <strong>in</strong> Catalonia. Three collections will <strong>in</strong>itially be
made available through DVCTVS: the Abadia de Montserrat Collection (consist<strong>in</strong>g of 1,500 papyri
from Egypt from the Ptolemaic period until the tenth century AD and <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g literary and
documentary texts written <strong>in</strong> Greek, Coptic, Lat<strong>in</strong>, Arabic and Demotic); the Palau-Ribes collection
(with currently 100 published papyri from Egypt between the eighth century BC and the tenth century
AD (with approximately 2,000 texts <strong>in</strong> total) and written <strong>in</strong> various languages (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g Greek, Lat<strong>in</strong>,
Coptic, Demotic, Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac); and the Fundacion Pastor Collection (a collection of
about 400 papyri from the same time period as the other two collections). Currently papyri are be<strong>in</strong>g
cataloged, digital images are be<strong>in</strong>g added, and previously pr<strong>in</strong>ted texts are be<strong>in</strong>g published as TEI-
XML files. A digital catalog is available that <strong>in</strong>cludes multiple keyword search<strong>in</strong>g (us<strong>in</strong>g Boolean
operators) across a large number of fields (e.g., alphabet, associated MSS, author, book, date, date of
f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g, edition, f<strong>in</strong>dspot, language, published title). A Greek keyboard can be used to search the
digital catalog. Each papyrus record <strong>in</strong>cludes extensive metadata and sometimes <strong>in</strong>cludes digital
images and a Greek text transcription. The website is available <strong>in</strong> Spanish, Catalan, and English.
One of the largest papyri “portals,” as well as metadata aggregators, albeit with a concentration on
collections from Ancient Egypt, is Trismegistos. 474 This project serves as an “<strong>in</strong>terdiscipl<strong>in</strong>ary portal
of papyrological and epigraphical resources deal<strong>in</strong>g with Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly
800 B.C. and AD 800,” and the majority of these resources are based at the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven. The core component of this portal is the Trismegistos Texts Database, 475 which supports
federated search<strong>in</strong>g across the metadata (currently 113,940 records) of a series of papyrological and
epigraphic databases of related projects. The first group of partner projects updates their <strong>in</strong>formation
directly <strong>in</strong>to the FileMaker Database that underlies the onl<strong>in</strong>e XML version of Trismegistos Texts and
<strong>in</strong>cludes Hieroglyphic Hieratic Papyri (HHP), 476 Demotic and Abnormal Hieratic Texts (DAHT), 477
Aramaic Texts from Egypt (ATE), 478 TM Magic, 479 and the Leuven Database of Ancient Books
(LDAB). 480 Each of these databases has a project website as part of Trismegistos so their collections
can be searched separately. Metadata also come from four other major projects that ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong> separate
databases and update their data <strong>in</strong> Trismegistos yearly, and this <strong>in</strong>cludes the HGV, 481 the Arabic
Papyrology Database (APD), 482 the Brussels Coptic Database (BCD), 483 and the Catalogue of
Paraliterary Papyri (CPP). 484 Each papyrus is given an <strong>in</strong>dividual Trismegistos number (TM Number)
so that records for it can be easily found across all the databases. 485 The Trismegistos portal also
473 http://dvctvs.upf.edu/lang/en/<strong>in</strong>dex.php
474 http://www.trismegistos.org/
475 http://www.trismegistos.org/tm/<strong>in</strong>dex.php
476 http://www.trismegistos.org/hhp/<strong>in</strong>dex.php
477 http://www.trismegistos.org/daht/<strong>in</strong>dex.php
478 http://www.trismegistos.org/ate/<strong>in</strong>dex.php
479 http://www.trismegistos.org/magic/<strong>in</strong>dex.php
480 http://www.trismegistos.org/ldab/<strong>in</strong>dex.php. Further discussion of the LDAB can be found here.
481 http://aquila.papy.uni-heidelberg.de/gvzFM.html
482 http://orientw.uzh.ch/apd/project.jsp
483 http://dev.ulb.ac.be/philo/bad/copte/base.phppage=accueil.php
484 http://cpp.arts.kuleuven.be//
485 Further discussion of the federated search approach and the use of a unique Trismegistos identifier can be found <strong>in</strong> Bagnall (2010); these topics are also
discussed later <strong>in</strong> this paper.