Another copy of the Copper Scroll exists, although I’m not sure exactly where, somewhere in the bowels of the University of Chicago. David Wilmot, of blessed memory, prepared a copy as part of his dissertation research (see Michael O. Wise, “David Wilmot and the Copper Scroll,” in G. J. Brooke and P. R. Davies, Copper Scroll Studies (London, T & T Clarke, 2002) 291ff.) His students and friends were treated to a play-by-play description of the vicissitudes of this construction; Allegro had described the gauge of the copper as being that of three British postcards, so there was a lot of measurements of late-40’s postcards, that kind of thing. Wilmot received his PhD posthumously, and I don’t know what happened to his replica; it might be in the collection of the Oriental Institute, although his PhD was, I believe, in the Humanities Division.Can any other readers shed light on the fate of Dr. Wilmot's replica?
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