Writing materials in the ancient world / Adam Bülow-Jacobsen -- The finds of papyri : the archaeology of papyrology / Hélène Cuvigny -- The history of the discipline / James G. Keenan -- Conservation of ancient papyrus materials / Jaakko Frsn -- Greek and Latin writing in the papyri / Guglielmo Cavallo -- The Greek and Latin languages in the papyri / Eleanor Dickey -- Abbreviations and symbols / Nikolaos Gonis -- Practical help : chronology, metrology, currency, geography, names, prosopography, and technical vocabulary / Roger S. Bagnall -- Editing a papyrus / Paul Schubert -- Archives and dossiers / Katelijn Vandorpe -- The ancient book / William A. Johnson -- Papyrology and ancient literature / Timothy T. Renner -- The special case of Herculaneum / David Sider -- Education in the papyri / Raffaella Cribiore -- Mathematics, science and medicine in the papyri / Alexander Jones -- The range of documentary texts : types and categories / Bernhard Palme -- The multilingual environment of Persian and Ptolemaic Egypt : Egyptian, Aramaic, and Greek documentation / Dorothy J. Thompson -- The multilingual environment of late antique Egypt : Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Persian documentation / Jean-Luc Fournet -- Arabic papyri and Islamic Egypt / Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- The papyrology of the Near East / Jean Gascou-- Writing histories from the papyri / Todd M. Hickey -- Geography and administration in Egypt / Maria Rosaria Falivene -- Law in Greco-Roman Egypt : Hellenization, Fusion, Romanization / Uri Yiftach-Firanko -- Egyptian religion and magic in the papyri / Willy Clarysse -- Christianity in the papyri / David G. Martinez -- Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the papyri / Cornelia Römer -- The future of papyrology / Peter van Minnen.