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“If it was in a personal library, and then the same scribe turned it around to write the other text, what does that mean?” Someone was taking notes for later p
by pervycreeper 11y ago
“If it was in a personal library, and then the same scribe turned it around to write the other text, what does that mean?”
Someone was taking notes for later private study?
- iwwr 11y agoWriting material wasn't as easy to come by back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest Quite a bit of ancient writings survived in that form.
- pervycreeper 11y agoThe fragment referenced in the article was written on papyrus.