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New Pen & Old Ink: XRF Analysis of a Unique Archive from 1st c. BCE Tebtunis

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Abstract

This study examines the ink used in an archive of >50 bilingual papyri (in Greek and Demotic) written by a single scribe that were found in two crocodile mummies excavated from Tebtunis by B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt in 1900.