Accession books of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection

Reporting period 1870 – 1962

The accession books of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin still serve as the inventory records for the museum collections and reflect the eventful history of the collection's development and the provenance of the holdings. The handwritten volumes of the Egyptian Museum and the Papyrus Collection contain information on the conditions of acquisition, previous ownership and the circumstances of discovery, as well as later losses or relocations of items in the collection.