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Forging Antiquity Database of Forged Papyri

Macquarie University
Malcolm Choat (Aggregated by) Rachel Yuen-Collingridge (Aggregated by) Richard Bott (Aggregated by)
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A list of those fake papyri and related manuscripts which have come to the notice of the Forging Antiquity project so far. In accordance with the general parameters of the Forging Antiquity project, the list consists of forgeries from (or allegedly from) Egypt on papyrus and related material (ostraca, tablets, etc). It thus largely excludes (a) epigraphic forgeries; and (b) forgeries from locations other than Egypt. For this reason it does not include texts such as the post-2002 “Dead Sea Scroll-like” fragments which are well covered by other projects. This list largely consists of those forgeries which have been published, mentioned in print, or featured in online repositories.

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Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant | Classical Greek and Roman history | Digital heritage | Digital history | European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) | Fakes | Forgeries | Forgery of antiquities | Forgery of antiquities -- Egypt | Heritage and cultural conservation | Heritage collections and interpretations | Papyri | Papyrus |

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url : https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/projects/ec6d809a-e2a2-40bf-a8ec-d769d751187f

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ACN 633 798 857