Mario Bravo! Your excellent work on this project and your whole career is highly commendable.
If I may, I would like to ask how do we know that Cardinal Borgia's roll is the first Greek papyrus from Egypt to enter Europe? This characterization seems incredible. Would it be better to say the earliest known extant Greek papyrus from Egypt to enter Europe? John John N. Lupia III New Jersey, USA; Beirut, Lebanon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Roman-Catholic-News/ God Bless Everyone --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Mario Capasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Mario Capasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PAPY] Charta Borgiana: a needed restoration > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 5:00 AM > I am pleased to announce that the famous Charta Borgiana (SB > I 5124), the > first Greek Papyrus coming from Egypt to Europe and whose > publication > conventionally marks the beginning of Papyrology came to > life again > In fact it was affected by mould in a showcase of Museo > Archeologico > Nazionale in Naples, where it was exhibited, and it turned > the risk of being > completely destroyed. > At Museum Director¹s invitation, during last October, a > team of restorers > from University of Lecce, directed by myself, carefully > cleaned and restored > the papyrus. > > Mario Capasso > Centro di Studi Papirologici > Università del Salento, Lecce > Italy
