Readers of this blog and my book know that I am not a techy professor but I like old fashioned social media (“boomer!” my nephews say…), and so, while everyone was busy following the millionaire sale of an unprovenanced Samaritan inscription through Sotheby’s, I discovered by chance that some very well-known papyri most probably from Syria went on auction through Drouot. One of the buyers made his acquisitions known through his Facebook account.I didn't know about these third-century CE Greek and Syriac papyri. They are unprovenanced. Apparently they were found in the vicinity of Dura Europos, possibly in the 1960s or 1980s. Roberta Mazza has background and some questions about the circumstances of their export from Syria.[...]
For that recently sold, unprovenanced, Samaritan Decalogue inscription, see here and links.
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