GESHAEM restored 42 pieces of mummy decorations and inventoried 221 new fragments of papyri, mostly accounts, in Greek, Demotic or bilingual. Most of the cartonnages and a selection of papyri have been presented in the exhibition Vivre et mourir en Égypte, d’Alexandre le grand à Cléopâtre, that took place in the musée d’Aquitaine in Bordeaux in 2024 and was a great success. The exhibition catalogue, published for the occasion but also intended to serve as a reference work on the Ptolemaic period in Egypt, features high-quality photographs of all these pieces studied within the project. Placed in the broader context of life and death in Ptolemaic Egypt, they bear witness to the encounter between Greek and Egyptian cultures in various fields (political, religious, funerary, administrative, literary, etc.). A cartoon on papyrus production and reuse, created by the Past&Curious team for the exhibition, thanks to a sponsorship by the Kheops institute in Paris, can still be viewed on YouTube, and the watercolours created by J.C. Golvin based on data from the GESHAEM papyri for the exhibition can also still be viewed on the author’s website.
A papyrus connection algorithm, using Deep learning methods, and an interface for manipulating fragments (PapyViz) were developed as part of GESHAEM and are now available on the project website for others to use on other papyrological collections and, eventually, to improve.
Finally, a monograph on the bilingual surety contracts of the Sorbonne is in press, while another on tax registers is being finalised. The texts, also published online thanks to the project’s database, provide essential information on the role of the Egyptians in the formation of the Ptolemaic state.
