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Metallic ink used in the Herculaneum scrolls
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| Monday, March 21, 2016
| editors, source Emmanuel Brun et al.
Posted on 03/23/2016 3:02:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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An example of a section of one of the charred/carbonized scrolls found at the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. Wikimedia Commons
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:02:05 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:02:21 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
They even lead back to when they used Lead (PB) to add patina to their wine.
Of course you are my bright little star,
I’ve miles And miles Of files
Pretty files of your forefather’s fruit
and now to suit our great computer,
You’re magnetic ink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AukFsBv2oDY
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:07:37 PM PDT
by
soycd
To: SunkenCiv
Very interesting, but its still all Greek to me.
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:07:45 PM PDT
by
Idaho_Cowboy
(I Samuel 8:19-20 The New Spirit of America?)
To: SunkenCiv
They have been working on these charred fragments for years. They MUST get them translated before I die. I want to know what is in those pitiful remains of a great ancient library.
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:10:12 PM PDT
by
wildbill
(If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
To: SunkenCiv
Lead based ink. Or Carbon based ink written over lead pencil ?
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:14:03 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: UCANSEE2
UCANSEE2 :" Or Carbon based ink written over lead pencil ?"
But ,.. but, there is no eraser !
What if you make a spelling error ?
Do they call the spelling errors " COMMON CORE " ?
or , eubonics ?
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:32:46 PM PDT
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
To: SunkenCiv
Is the word in the upper right “METALO” - a spelling variant of METALLO, “metal”? If so, it is appropriate for this article.
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:39:58 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to meand over an is worthless." - Scalia)
To: wildbill
The attempts at unrolling were a disaster, so they continued for decades during the 19th century, and perhaps into the 20th. The idea that there's metal in the ink *may have* arisen from the use of xrays to try to read the scrolls without trying to unroll them. Anyway, AFAIK, all the known texts are from epicurian philosophy (oh boy), and are mostly otherwise unknown works. There's been some wishful thinking in recent years that, perhaps, since the house turned out to have a another storey, perhaps there's a second library, and in *that* one, perhaps there are some more desirable texts, like, oh, lost histories and whatnot. That would be nice, but there's probably no second library in the house.
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:41:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Pollster1; Idaho_Cowboy
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:44:48 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
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posted on
03/23/2016 3:48:14 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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To: UCANSEE2
veerry interesting.....
the carpenters pencil preceded the round ticonderoga #3
Regarding lead...... While in school in Raleigh, I saw a street called lead mine road. That seemed interesting so Itook ny topo map to find it. I couldn’t. I finally stopped at a store and asked an old man and he gave me directions. It was but a substantial hole in the ground.
It was a graphite mine
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posted on
03/23/2016 4:27:32 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
To: SunkenCiv
Was one of the arguments against the Turin Shroud that the “ink” on the Shroud had metal in it and such did not exist two millenia back?
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posted on
03/23/2016 4:28:46 PM PDT
by
Rockpile
(GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
To: Pollster1
I believe that’s the equivalent of MEGALO in Latin letters, meaning big.
To: JustSurrounded
Probably correct, but I like my misreading better.
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posted on
03/23/2016 5:32:02 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to meand over an is worthless." - Scalia)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/23/2016 5:38:03 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: Idaho_Cowboy
you’ve never heard of Metallica?
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posted on
03/24/2016 4:40:27 AM PDT
by
brivette
(no tagline)
To: Rockpile
Not that I know of, but that’s as far into the Shroud firefights I’m willing to go.
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posted on
03/24/2016 5:27:56 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SteveH
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posted on
03/24/2016 5:32:55 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: brivette
youve never heard of Metallica?
Mr. Peabody!
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posted on
03/24/2016 8:06:47 AM PDT
by
Idaho_Cowboy
(I Samuel 8:19-20 The New Spirit of America?)
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