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by iosonofuturista 685 days ago
My understanding from reading the article, is that the issue is not so much matching the deciphered lines, but the interpretation of that deciphering. So they want the scholarship agreement on what is actually written on the papyrus.

I imagine there are plenty of missing words being inserted, unreadable letters being guessed and so on.

So the way to do it for now, has to rely more on experience and intuition than a database search.