Illustrated guide to the National Museum in Naples : sanctioned by the Ministry of education (1897)
Museo nazionale di Napoli, Italy. Ministero dell'educazione nazionale, De Petra, Giulio · Naples : Richter & Co. · leaf 126
anean papyri had to contend. Rolls found in Egypt in the present day have preserved their nature and flexibility whereas these referred to are merely carbon and may be destroyed by a breath. Several attempts have been made to decipher them ; amongst other expedients Paderni cut them into strips in… … Fig. 99. Tetradrachme of Syracuse. which was adopted by the Jesuit Antonio Piaggio who was sent for from Rome to Naples on purpose. His method, which is still practised, is as follows. The roll is laid upon and suspended between two wadded armc liino-laet; i<j naQtpH nti thf» mit*»r «:iHo niirl tr»…
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