The Securely Datable Paleographic Samples of Greek Papyri written in a Literary Hand

The collection was put together for a research project seeking to reassess the dates of early Christian papyri. The collection suggests that date ranges assigned to literary papyri solely on the basis of palaeography (analysis of handwriting) need to be considerably wider than previously thought (in the range of up to two centuries rather than 50 years).  The project findings indicate that greater precision within those larger ranges can be achieved by exploring data other than handwriting, including typologies of codices (form and format of books and the construction techniques used to make them).
The dataset consists of a spreadsheet that acts as an index to fragments of papyri that are securely datable (i.e. the date of creation has been confidently established). The columns in the spreadsheet details the papyri designation (identifier), date range of creation, dating method, image source (holding library, web, scan from a book), and the rights (print rights, pending, etc.) pertaining to the image. The dataset covers approximately forty such fragments of paypri.

本数据集汇编自一项旨在重新评估早期基督教纸草文书年代的研究项目。该研究揭示，仅基于古文书学（palaeography，即手写体分析）对文学纸草文书划定的年代范围，需较既往认知大幅拓宽——跨度可达两个世纪，而非此前的50年。项目研究结果表明，在这一更宽泛的年代区间内，可通过引入手写体之外的其他数据维度实现更高的断代精度，其中包括抄本（codices）类型学——即书籍的形制、格式与制作工艺。
本数据集为一份电子表格，作为可可靠确认创作日期的纸草残片索引。表格各列分别记录纸草文书的编号（标识符）、创作年代范围、断代方法、图像来源（馆藏图书馆、网络来源、书籍扫描件）以及图像相关的版权信息（含印刷权限、待审核状态等）。该数据集共收录约40件此类纸草残片。