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DC Parker wrote:
I don't believe in a 'standard' life for a papyrus MS (or any other 
kind, 
for that matter) - see recent correspondence.  I can think at once 
of 
three variables:

1.  The degree of use.

2.  The care taken by the user(s).

3.  The climate.

I can think of support for that: 
1) ancient Egyptian papyri;
2) the palimpsest found at Qumran, dating, if memory serves me 
right, from the 7th century BCE.
Jonathan D. Safren
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl College
44905 Beit Berl Post Office
Israel

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