[First posted in AWOL 18 March 2021, updates 11 Septembe 2024]
Pylon. Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts aims to publish
high quality research on Greek, Latin and Coptic papyri in a timely
manner. New text editions of documentary, literary and subliterary
papyri or corrections to previously published texts are especially
sought. General studies based on papyrological evidence that relate to
any aspect of Greco-Roman society in Egypt are also welcome. Articles
can be in English, French, German and Italian.
Pylon (ancient Greek πυλών or "gateway") is the OJS journal of the Papyrological Publishing Platform (P3),
a collaborative project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
and led by Heidelberg University's Institute for Papyrology and
University Library and Duke University's Collaborative for Classics
Computing in the United States. The goal of P3 is to facilitate data
transfer between scholarly journals and the papyrological data
repository papyri.info, as it converts transcriptions of ancient texts to EpiDoc for easy transfer to papyri.info. The journal is perceived as a central gateway for this, hence its name.
Although Pylon is primarily an online journal that publishes
XML, it also provides PDFs of all articles for download. These are
generated automatically from the XML, and are not subject to traditional
formatting.
More information about the journal is available here. Details concerning the submission process can be found under submissions; questions can also be directed to any of the editors.
Notes and Corrections
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