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
| 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
| 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
| 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unpublished documents, the coverage is very problematic to estimate.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.
