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At 12:12  8/23/96 +0800, Timothy John Finney wrote:
>One last totally unrelated point. I read in a recent Offline article by
>James Adair that it is now possible to use a piece of material the size of
>a seed to obtain a carbon date. Perhaps it is time to snip a piece off P64
>and send it to the physicists! You could take lots of photos of the little
>piece (without writing of course) for posterity. And why stop at P64? 

Wouldn't you have to carbon date the ink to get a better idea of when it
written rather than when the papyrus/vellum was prepared?

Stephen Carlson
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