Re: VMs: OT: Gobbling the Whole -- Oxyrhynchus papyri have become legible

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 07:57 17/04/2005 -0700, Jim Gillogly wrote:
> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=630165
>
> New photographic techniques have made formerly illegible
> papyri give up their secrets, which include hitherto unknown
> works of Sophochles, Euripedes, Hesiod, and other classical
> Greek and Roman luminaries and sub-luminaries.

Thanks, Jim, a really fascinating news story... I can't wait to see what 
those papyri say! :-)

BTW, I don't believe that Dr Christopher Pelling, the Regius Professor of 
Greek at Oxford mentioned in the above story, is related to me. I thought 
I'd say, just so no rumours of a Pelling family conspiracy start leaking 
out... :-)

FWIW, I think that whatever the actual language or cipher system the VMs 
will turn out to have been written in, we may also have a layer of 
well-meaning (but flawed) emendation to contend with. Exactly the kind of 
multi-spectral stuff mentioned (briefly) above may prove to be just about 
the only sensible way of telling one from the other... but that's a story 
yet to be written... :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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