Coverage for Egypt and the Nile Valley (for the Ancient World in general, click here)
Because of its organic growth and evolving focus since 2005 (see history), Trismegistos Texts has a very different coverage according to region, period and genre. The following tables provide estimations of the current coverage for published documents.
800 BC - AD 800
Language / Script / Genre
Coverage of Trismegistos Texts (estimated)
Greek papyrology
almost 100%
Greek epigraphy
almost 100%
Latin papyrology
almost 100%
Latin epigraphy
almost 100%
Demotic papyrology and epigraphy
almost 100%
Hieroglyphic and hieratic papyrology
ca. 95% ?
Hieroglyphic and hieratic epigraphy
perhaps 40% ? (excluding 'temple texts')
Coptic papyrology
almost 100%
Coptic epigraphy
perhaps 40% ?
Aramaic papyrology and epigraphy
ca. 95% ?
Meroitic epigraphy
ca. 95% ?
Old Nubian papyrology and epigraphy
perhaps 90% ?
Arabic papyrology
perhaps 90% ?
Before 800 BC
Language / Script / Genre
Coverage of Trismegistos Texts (estimated)
Hieroglyphic and hieratic papyrology
only Books of the Dead and documentary material from Deir el-Medina (both almost 100%)
Hieroglyphic and hieratic epigraphy
almost completely lacking
After AD 800
Language / Script / Genre
Coverage of Trismegistos Texts (estimated)
Greek papyrology and epigraphy
ca. 90% ?
Old Nubian papyrology and epigraphy
ca. 50% ?
Coptic papyrology
only documentary material (almost 100%)
Coptic epigraphy
limited coverage, only Koptisches Sammelbuch material
Arabic papyrology
only documents, ca. 10% ?
Arabic epigraphy
completely lacking
Hebrew material (e.g. Geniza)
completely lacking
For unpublished documents, the coverage is very problematic to estimate. Our main source of information are the collection-based tools.
