Category Archives: Mummy cartonnage

The Green Collection 1 Samuel: A Place of Purchase

Posted on December 14, 2018 by

The “Passages” speakers series videos continue to yield insights into the early formation of the Green Collection, and in particular this papyrus of 1 Samuel that I have mentioned before. The usual format of these “Passages” talks involves extended introductory … Continue reading →

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The Green Collection Sappho Papyrus: Some New Details

Posted on December 13, 2018 by

I am in the process of working my way through videos of the lectures associated with the “Passages” travelling exhibition of Green Collection. At the prompting of David Bradnick who is also engaging in this pastime, I jumped ahead to … Continue reading →

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More on the Curious Green Collection 1 Samuel Papyrus

Posted on December 12, 2018 by

I’ve written several posts (like this one) on different aspects of the “Passages” travelling exhibition of the Green Collection that took place between 2011 and the opening of the permanent exhibition at the Museum of the Bible in 2017. Some … Continue reading →

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The Green Collection 1 Samuel Papyrus and Mummy Cartonnage

Posted on June 15, 2018 by

In the course of rooting around online for further insight into the early Christian papyrus fragments I have been discussing (here and here), I’ve followed in the tracks of others (like Brice Jones and Roberta Mazza) who were already going … Continue reading →

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P129, P130, and P131: A Couple More Observations

Posted on June 14, 2018 by

In my previous post, I tried to direct attention to the source of certain papyri in the Green Collection and/or the Museum of the Bible that seem to have been acquired at about the same time as “first century” Mark … Continue reading →

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Anton Fackelmann and Cartonnage

Posted on January 1, 2018 by

Since I began this blog midway through 2017 with a post about Anton Fackelmann and some of the papyri he allegedly removed from mummy cartonnage, I thought I might close out the old year and open up the new with … Continue reading →

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Ancient Book Covers and “Cartonnage”

Posted on December 8, 2017 by

As a follow-up to my last post on the development of the use of the French term “cartonnage”: It looks like it was the late 1950s when the term “cartonnage” began to be applied to the material sometimes used in … Continue reading →

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