Friday, March 2, 2018

How A Professor Tracked Down A Seller Of Looted Ancient Papyri

Roberta Mazza of the University of Manchester writes about her search for the origins of a Coptic fragment of Paul's Letter to the Galatians that appeared on eBay in 2008 and ended up - like too many other pieces of dubious provenance - in the collection that forms the basis of the Museum of the Bible in D.C.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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