Talk:Berlin Papyrus Collection

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Papyrus Berlin 25239

• ... that according to some scholars a papyrus (depicted) in the Berlin Papyrus Collection contains an autograph of Cleopatra? Source: Sarri 2017, p. 168
• ALT1: ... that a cartel was formed to purchase papyri for the Berlin Papyrus Collection? Source: Kuckertz 2015, p. 43
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hugh of Fagiano and Template:Did you know nominations/Fernán Díaz de Toledo

Created by WatkynBassett (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 31 past nominations.

WatkynBassett (talk) 11:25, 2 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

New enough (created Nov. 1, nom Nov. 2); long enough (8,658 characters/1356 words); well-sourced with scholarly publicaitons. Both hooks are short, interesting and sourced. Two QPQs done. I've made several small corrections to the text. I'm unsure about the image and whether it is actually PD, because it's indicated to have come from lsaclassics.com. --Երևանցի ^talk 09:36, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @Yerevantsi: Thank you very much for your helpful edits and the review. I would consider this image to be PD because the papyrus itself is obviously old enough and it is Commons policy to accept that the process of scanning does not add the required level of originality to make it itself copyrightable. But we will not have to worry about that as I have since located an image of the papyrus which has a compatible licence and uploaded it. I have taken the liberty to change the image above accordingly and will do so in the article. WatkynBassett (talk) 22:29, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good! --Երևանցի ^talk 13:34, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]