Since roughly a century, alternating teams have been devoted to the archaeological exploration of the Nile island Elephantine in the south of Egypt, the city Aswan (Roman Syene) on the opposite east bank, the neighboring monastery Dayr Anba Hadra, as well as the settlement and fortress Qasr Ibrim in Lower Nubia. Field research has yielded a multitude of papyri, ostraca and inscriptions, which have in part not all been published to this day. The edition and publication of these texts depends on the work of philologists from all over the world, associated to various excavation and museum teams.

In December 2018, these text editors met for the first time in Basel at the workshop “ConText. Greek, Coptic and Arabic Sources from Aswan, Elephantine, Dayr Anba Hadra and Qasr Ibrim” to compare notes with colleagues from related excavations and projects.

This was the beginning of a new collaboration between text editors and archaeologists working in this region. The website will give you an impression of how fruitful this cooperation was and will continue to be. Here, you will find all publications, new archaeological findings and activities concerning the Aswan region.