Guido Bastianini (born September 10, 1945 in Florence), Italian

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

and

palaeographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...

. Bastianini finished his papyrological studies in Florence 1970. He had participated in various archaeological missions in Egypt organized by the Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli" and the

Egyptian Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum or the Cairo Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display a ...

in Cairo (March–April 1969, September–October 1972, April 1973), both on the excavation of Antinoe (September–October 1973, December 1974 - January 1975). In 1999 he became director of Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli" in Florence. From 2001 to 2007 was president of the Italian Institute for the Egyptian civilization.Guido Bastianini - Curriculum Vitae
Il Portale Italiano di Archeologica Bastianini examined and described

Papyrus 93 Papyrus 93 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓93, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The surviving texts of John are verses 13:15-17. The manuscript paleographically has be ...

Milan Papyrus The Milan Papyrus is a papyrus roll inscribed in Alexandria in the late 3rd or early 2nd century BC during the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Originally discovered by anonymous tomb raiders as part of a mummy wrapping, it was purchased in the papyr ...

, and several other manuscripts written on papyrus.

Works

* G. Bastianini - J. Whitehorne, Strategi and Royal Scribes of Roman Egypt, Firenze, Gonnelli 1987 (Papyrologica Florentina XV). * Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris reperta (CLGP) ediderunt G. Bastianini, M. Haslam, H. Maehler, F. Montanari, C. Römer, adiuvante M. Stroppa, Pars I. Commentaria et Lexica in Auctores, Vol. 1. Fasc. 1: Aeschines-Alcaeus, München-Leipzig, Saur 2004. * Commentaria et Lexica Greca in Papyris reperta (CLGP) ediderunt G. Bastianini, M. Haslam, H. Maehler, F. Montanari, C. Römer, adiuvante M. Stroppa, I.1.4 (Aristophanes-Bacchylides), München-Leipzig 2006, XXXII+310 pp. * Bastianini G. - Gallazzi C. (edd.), Papiri dell’Università di Milano - Posidippo di Pella. Epigrammi, LED Edizioni Universitarie, Milano, 2001, * Austin C. - Bastianini G. (edd.)
''Posidippi Pellaei quae supersunt omnia''
LED Edizioni Universitarie, Milano, 2002,

References

External links

Guido Bastianini - Curriculum Vitae
Il Portale Italiano di Archeologica

Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità
Ordinario di Papirologia nell'Università degli Studi di Firenze e Direttore dell'Istituto

Tipologie dei Rotolie Problemi di Riconstruzione
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