Monday, June 01, 2020

Ink, writing surfaces, and fakes

VARIANT READINGS: Forgeries, Inks, and Writing Surfaces (Brent Nongbri).

For more on recent scholarly work on ancient ink, see here and links. And for more on the question of the (evidently mostly or entirely fake) post-2002 Dead Sea Scroll-like fragments, see here and links.

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