Coptic Scriptorium was launched with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities in two grants, co-directed by Caroline T. Schroeder (University of the Pacific) and Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University):

• Coptic SCRIPTORIUM: Digitizing a Corpus for Interdisciplinary Research in Ancient Egyptian – NEH Preservation and Access grant (PW5167214)
• Coptic SCRIPTORIUM: A Corpus, Tools, and Methods for Corpus Linguistics and Computational Historical Research in Ancient Egypt &ndash ODH Start-Up grant (HD51907)

These projects have been responsible for the initial release of pilot corpora and digital tools since 2014.