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This engraving presents a meticulous facsimile of a papyrus fragment recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum, specifically from the 'Collectio Altera' of the Herculaneum Volumina. It illustrates 'Column VIII' of a lost ancient text, capturing both the surviving Greek uncial characters and the jagged, damaged edges of the carbonized scroll. Such plates were essential for 18th and 19th-century scholars attempting to reconstruct the library of the Villa of the Papyri after its burial by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
This detailed engraving presents a facsimile of a papyrus scroll fragment recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum, which was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The plate meticulously reproduces the Greek uncial script and the jagged, damaged edges of the carbonized ancient manuscript, labeled here as 'COL. VI'. Produced by the Accademia Ercolanese, such illustrations were vital for the early modern study of Epicurean philosophy and lost classical texts.
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papyrus_fragmentDidymos' Commentary on Demosthenes (with Stoic Hierocles on Verso)
Berlin Papyrus Collection
A Greek papyrus fragment (P. Berol. inv. 9780) containing columns of script from Didymos' Commentary on Demosthenes.
papyrus_fragmentPhilosophical Treatise with Plato Quotations (Philebus & Phaedrus)
Berlin Papyrus Collection
A papyrus fragment containing a Greek philosophical treatise that quotes from Plato's dialogues, the Philebus and the Phaedrus.
Fragments of philosophical texts preserved on papyrus — quotations from Plato's Philebus and Phaedrus, Stoic works by Hierocles, and Didymos's commentary on Demosthenes.
