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Gerald Lankester Harding’s Qumran Cave 1Q Excavation Photos
I think a copy of Gerald Lankester Harding’s photographs of the Cave 1Q manuscripts as they were being excavated in 1949 may be at the École biblique in Jerusalem. The back story: When I was writing an article on the … Continue reading →
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Another Photo of Muhammad ed-Dhib
Thanks to Asaf Gayer for pointing out that there is another excellent photo of Muhammad ed-Dhib to add to the small group of photos of the alleged finders of the first scrolls that I discussed in an earlier post. This … Continue reading →
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Photos of the First Finders of the Dead Sea Scrolls
In my last post I unpacked the story of what seems to be the earliest published photograph of the alleged finders of the first Dead Sea Scrolls: This picture was taken in 1951 by Richmond Brown, and published (I think) … Continue reading →
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Cover of Nag Hammadi Codex I for Sale (with a Bowl)
After being down for several days due to a cyber attack, the Christie’s website appears to be back up and running. A more detailed description of the items being auctioned from the Schøyen Collection is now available. Among them is … Continue reading →
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Further Revelations from Sampson’s Article: The Sappho Papyrus and the German Officer
In a previous post on C. Michael Sampson’s article in the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Association of Papyrologists, I mentioned that Sampson’s essay contained a number of interesting but somewhat complicated revelations about questions surrounding … Continue reading →
The Trojan Horse in Pakistan and Questions of Provenance
In the process of preparing to teach a course on ancient trade networks, I encountered a very informative chapter by Rachel Mairs in The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization (2017), which introduced me to a fascinating artifact of which … Continue reading →
Qumran Cave 1 Questions, Part 3: Is Cave 1 Really Cave 1?
This is the third in a series of questions relating to the source of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls to appear on the market in 1947. The first post dealt with the Genesis Apocryphon, and the second with the … Continue reading →
Qumran Cave 1 Questions, Part 1: The Genesis Apocryphon Roll
One of the many events called off in the general shut down of activities last month was a meeting at the University of Agder associated with The Lying Pen of Scribes project, On the Origin of the Pieces: The Provenance … Continue reading →
Important Developments with the New Sappho Papyrus
Mike Holmes of the Museum of the Bible has just released some new discoveries from the Museum’s ongoing provenance research to me and several other people via e-mail. There are several important revelations. Especially important are 1) a stunningly sharp … Continue reading →
Publication of the Tchacos-Ferrini Mathematical Codex
I see that later this month we can expect the publication of the Tchacos-Ferrini mathematical codex (LDAB 10719, now dubbed by the editors P.Math.). This codex travelled the antiquities market along with a papyrus codex of Exodus in Greek, a … Continue reading →
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