A note from the past

This is a piece of text discovered in Egypt, written over 1000 years ago.

We'd like you to help us to read it.

Inspecting the papyrus

You can drag the piece around to inspect it, or click the map to navigate to a specific region.

You may need to zoom to get a better look at the specimen.

Marking a Greek character

Click on a character's center point to mark the location. You can reposition this by dragging, if you need to.

Don't worry about completely covering the character, we only need its center point.

Your work is automatically saved

When changes have been made to the fragment, the save status will change.

You can click it to save immediately, or let the document automatically save every 20 seconds.

Matching characters to Greek

With characters marked, we now need to match them to Greek on the keyboard.

Click on one of your highlighted characters to select it, then hover over the keyboard to make a match.

Helpful controls

Use toggle to show and hide characters you've marked.

Set auto to have the system automatically move to the next character as you work.

You can select more than one character at a time by holding down shift on your keyboard.

Completing a fragment

Once all characters have been transcribed, adding some measurement data will help us to link it to other texts by the same person.