A puzzle of many pieces: a late roll of the Odyssey

The focus of this paper is represented by a papyrus of the Odyssey which proved to be quite challenging to work with this winter. The papyrus presented itself extremely fragmented (only to be found that more pieces had already been published!), in an unusual format, a beautiful calligraphic hand and more problems to tackle once the full reconstruction of all fragments had been made. How does the papyrologist proceed when s/he faces an artifact like this one?

Chiara D’Agostino (UCL)

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