Category Archives: Mummy cartonnage

The Atlantic Article and Green Collection Cartonnage

Posted on May 15, 2020 by

I continue to unpack various parts of Ariel Sabar’s informative article in The Atlantic. One of the things that originally piqued the curiosity of many of us about the Green Collection was their seemingly endless supply of “cartonnage,” a term … Continue reading →

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More Mummy and Cartonnage Material in the Green Collection

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

Courtesy of David Bradnick, here are a few more examples of mummy masks and other cartonnage associated with the Green Collection (I have been keeping a record of mummy masks in the Green Collection here). I note that the two … Continue reading →

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More on Sappho, Romans, and the Baylor “Mummy Mask” Extraction

Posted on February 9, 2020 by

In my last post on the new information regarding the origin of Hobby Lobby’s Sappho papyrus fragments, I noted some parallels with the claimed mummy mask origins of a papyrus fragment of Paul’s letter to the Romans (now known to … Continue reading →

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Contextualizing the New Sappho Information

Posted on January 30, 2020 by

Mike Holmes of the Museum of the Bible has released some intriguing new information about the Sappho papyrus fragments owned by Hobby Lobby. I posted Mike’s statement here. There really is a lot to unpack with this situation. I want … Continue reading →

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Important Developments with the New Sappho Papyrus

Posted on January 29, 2020 by

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 →

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A New Origin Story for the New Sappho

Posted on December 8, 2019 by

[[Update 9 December 2019: Transcribed more of the video clip below for greater context.]] The Sappho papyrus published by Professor Dirk Obbink has obscure origins, as many have noted and as I’ve discussed here before. Professor Obbink has provided two … Continue reading →

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An Image of the Green Collection “Aristotle” Papyrus?

Posted on December 4, 2019 by

I’m preparing a post on recently emerged Coptic manuscripts of dubious origins to go along with the working list of similarly dodgy Greek and Latin manuscripts. In doing so, I’ve revisited some material put out by the Christian apologist Josh … Continue reading →

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