Deciphering another ancient scroll from Vesuvius

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I suppose that deciphering a single word from recent texts after nearly two thousand years is noteworthy. This is part of the Vesuvius project aimed at examining the charred scrolls discovered in Herculaneum.

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Researchers have so far revealed several columns of text, with about 26 lines in each column. Academics are now hoping to read the whole scroll, but can already make out the Ancient Greek word διατροπή, meaning “disgust.” Toth suspects that it will relate in some way to the philosopher Epicurus, as so many of the other scrolls found at the same site have.

 

 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2466940-volcano-scorched-roman-scroll-is-read-for-the-first-time-in-2000-years/

 

 

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