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2 articles · 04 Oct 2026, 08:00 UTC — 03 Nov 2026, 08:00 UTC

Papyrology desk · 2026-11-03

A second PHerc. 306B area opens for collaborative reading

Following the PHerc. 306B prize announcement, a separate contributor shared a flattened mesh, traced lines, ink images and CT images for another area of that scroll. The post describes roughly nineteen square…

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Papyrology desk · 2026-11-02

Promising strokes meet a familiar question: signal or noise?

A papyrology discussion returned to the difficulty of separating apparent letter shapes from segmentation artefacts and visual noise. After a participant asked whether a candidate was promising, another suggested checking the raw…

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