Richard Janko, “The Derveni Papyrus” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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What Happened to the Papyrus?
This was a relatively easy papyrus to do, compared with the herculaneum ones. If just you took such a bizarr technique, you wonder how many, how many of these things you have to go through before you wellm i don't know how he did it. S but he did, as you say. And then, of course, half of it is minor standing. Half of it is actually burned off. So you've only got the top 16 lines or so of every column of writing. It's written in columns continuously, because it's a scroll. The book hadn't been invented, wasn't going to be invented for another 506 hundred years.
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