Duke University's Papyrus Archive is a labyrinth of collections that were purchased or a gift to Duke University for the collection. The items came from book dealers, donors, and various other sources. The Papyrus in the collection is curated topics and languages. which allows for a more indepth look at specifically one topic but means that some of the papyri will be in several of the topics. With in those topics, they are arranged by duke inventory numbers which means they could be out of chronological order. The only relation between the artifacts are of how they are tagged for the different topics. Some are shown as multiple pages of a sale or some other book or scroll. The archive describes the papyrus in dimensions, what the margins of the pages were, when the papyrus was from, and what the papyrus was about with as much detail as possible.
With all this information, the Duke University Papyrus Archive's collection is appearing to narrate what real life was like in Egypt at that time as well what they used to wrap mummies with or stuff the animals with. This is where most of their papyrus came from.
References:
Duke University. (1995, May 9). Private letter, [1st cent.] [Photograph]. https://library.duke.edu/papyrus/records/510.html
Duke University. (1998, June 29). Draft of a petition to the katholikos, [between 348 Dec. 9 and 348 Dec. 13] [Photograph]. https://library.duke.edu/papyrus/records/18r.html
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