Berlin Papyrus Collection

Berlin Papyrus Collection
Exterior of the Neues Museum
Housed atNeues Museum, Berlin, Germany
Websiteberlpap.smb.museum/sammlung

The Berlin Papyrus Collection (German: Papyrussammlung Berlin) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is the oldest and foremost collection of papyri in Germany and one of the five largest collections worldwide.

It is mainly housed in the Neues Museum and is part of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of Berlin. It comprises tens of thousands of papyri alongside 7,000 ostraka and further inscribed items. The texts appear in a wide range of scripts and languages including hieroglyphs, hieratic, Demotic and Greek.

The collection originated in 1823 and grew through purchases and excavations, especially under the Prussian Papyrus Enterprise (1901–1910) led by Otto Rubensohn and later Friedrich Zucker.

Notable manuscripts include Papyrus Berlin 3022, a manuscript of the Story of Sinuhe, Papyrus Berlin 3033 (the Westcar Papyrus), narrating five miraculous tales and Papyrus Berlin 25239 (Papyrus Bingen 45), which arguably contains an autograph of Cleopatra.

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