Layout of ancient greek papyri through lead-drawn ruling lines revealed by macro x-ray fluorescence imaging

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• who: Francesco P. Romano from the Delimitation of columns, intercolumns and linesFinally, we discuss the third and most elaborate layout system that we encountered, illustrated in Fig., . MA-XRF revealed, at the leftmost and the rightmost parts of PHerc., u2018cornice, `, u2018pezzo`, two grids consisting of several horizontal and quasi-vertical lines (Fig. A and C). By comparing this map with the Infrared image at , nm of the same fragment produced by a team from Brigham Young University (Fig. B and D), the horizontal lines are found to exactly correspond to baselines used by the scribe as a . . .
  

   

  

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