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J. H. Moulton and G. Milligan’s lexicon was among the first to interact with the thousands of Greek papyri, ostraca, and inscriptions discovered in Egypt during the mid- to late-19th century. These papyrus scraps and potsherds, which date from between the 3rd century B.C. and 8th century A.D., are the written record of everyday life in that time. They are the business contracts, personal emails,...

magical papyrus in the British Museum, in which nineteen columns are written on the recto, and the remaining thirteen on the verso.1 In any case we have abundant evidence of the use of the verso, when fresh papyrus was not available, as when a man writes a letter on the back of a business document, explaining that he had been unable at the moment to find a “clean sheet” (χαρτίον καθαρόν),2 or as when the back of the official notification of the death of a certain Panechotes is used for a school-exercise
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