Location of the Deposit of Papyri from the Temple Library at Tebtunis Identified

In 1931 at Tebtunis in the Fayyum oasis, Carlo Anti and Gilbert Bagnani discovered one of the largest deposit of Egyptian literary papyri ever made and moreover it originally derived from the library of the temple itself. The precise location of this deposit, however, has never been clear, because there was not the possibility to see and study the whole archive, collected by Anti, made by photographic materials and written documents. On the contrary, now Carlo Anti’s archive has recently been reordered at the Istituto Veneto and in the Museum of Archaeological Sciences and Arts (University of Padua).