The contextualisation of the Tebtunis papyri in the Museo Egizio

(In Chapter 3: G. Cafici, Tebtunis artefacts from Anti’s excavations at the Museo Egizio, Florence: types and findspots.) The section provides a synopsis of the archaeological context of the papyri housed in the Museo Egizio in Florence from C. Anti's 1931 Tebtunis campaign. The papyri are categorized into those associated with the so-called "library deposit" of the temple of Soknebtunis and those originating from other areas around the temple’s temenos. For instances where the editor of the papyri, G. Botti, did not specify the provenance in the museum’s inventory or publications, a tentative reconstruction is presented, also drawing on newly studied documentation from the Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli" related to the 1931 campaign’s findspots. Particularly challenging cases, such as a Ptolemaic oracular question in Demotic and an illustrated Egyptian papyrus with a Greek patch, are examined in detail. These examples highlight the critical role of interdisciplinary and institutional collaboration in advancing the broader understanding of the Tebtunis papyri.