Multispectral dataset for a fragment of a Greek papyrus scroll, PGM II (P. 5026), in the Berliner Papyrussammlung and currently on display in the Neues Museum, Berlin. Dating from the late second or early third century AD and likely written in the city of Thebes, this fragment was cut from an entire scroll (another fragment, P. Lond. I 47, can be found in the British Library), and includes the end of a magical guide. The papyrus fragment P. 5026 consists of four columns of text, a large drawing of a headless spirt of the dead, and additional scattered small drawings. The text includes instructions, anthems, and prayers, and is largely in good condition. The purpose of this analysis was to improve legibility in some areas. Due to the large size of the scroll, images were made in five parts, the first four of which include text and were processed.

Images in preview are compressed and of lower quality. They are mainly intended to serve as thumbnails. Original hiqh quality TIF images can be found in the Color and PROCESSED folder below (zip file). For information about filenames and folderstructure as well as MSI system related info, please read the "Brief Description of Datasets for Multispectral Imaging."

The research for this project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.