> "carbon-14 testing can’t really do more than offer a certain probability for a timeframe of approximately a century or so: about the same timeframe that pala

> "carbon-14 testing can’t really do more than offer a certain probability for a timeframe of approximately a century or so: about the same timeframe that palaeographers can offer" The main takeaway is that the scale of both methods is essentially the same, and will rarely span more than 100 years, for the time frame of interest to papyrologists.