Penn Parchment (IMAGE)

University of Cincinnati

Penn Parchment

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Matthijs Wibier, an assistant professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, worked with the Penn Museum to piece together 50 fragments of animal skin to discover they were a double-sided page of an ancient Roman legal text dating back to the fourth century. The untranslated fragments have been part of the museum's collection since 1911.

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Penn Museum

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