Synopsis
LLM-authored synopsis Not an article May be staleFor Greek textual transmission, the useful unit is the witness network, not a flat catalogue. Abydenus' lost Assyrian-Chaldaean history gives a published edge; Reconstructed contents of Hipparchus's lost star catalogue keeps the unfinished catalogue and source-route side visible.
Abydenus' lost Assyrian-Chaldaean history has Quotient 39/100, existence warrant 82, and direct attestation 65. Diels-Kranz testimonia controls for lost Presocratic writings belongs to transmission context, so the synthesis stays bounded to routes and survivals already gathered here.
Interpretive synthesis over gathered records only. It creates no article, evidence, inferon, source, or estimate.
The gathered set has changed since this synopsis was authored; use the linked records as the current authority.
Articles
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Reconstructed contents of Hipparchus's lost star catalogue
A contested partial reconstruction from palimpsests, papyri, and later astronomical witnesses
Abydenus' lost Assyrian-Chaldaean history
A lost Near Eastern historical work preserved through chronographic fragments
Lost works attributed to Marsyas of Philippi
A disputed fragmentary work-cluster in Hellenistic historiography
Lost long-form Orphic gold-leaf archetype witnessed by the Petelia tablet
A reconstructed underworld-instruction text behind extant gold-leaf witnesses
Technical-recipe stratum behind Papyrus Holmiensis and Leiden X
A late-antique recipe source layer inferred from companion craft papyri.
Polyidus poet-sophist identity dossier
A disputed ancient identity relation between musical-poetic and sophistic notices under the Polyidus name.
Emergent lineage
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Related Pages
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Record claim
About the production, transmission, survival, or filtering of the written/material record up to the pre-modern past itself -- scribal behaviour and e…
Witness counts (Pinakes)
Pinakes/BHG/BHL-style per-work manuscript witness-count catalogues.
Technical, recipe, and scientific texts
Recipe strata, agronomic source chains, astronomical catalogues, herbals, and practical technical corpora.
Manuscript and scribal production
Anonymous hands, production teams, witness families, codices, scribal layers, and manuscript-workshop lacunae.
Early Christian and Syriac transmission
Christian, Syriac, patristic, episcopal, and conciliar source routes before print dominance.
Critical apparatus
genuine variant/apparatus data at scale -- Homeric papyri, Gandhari scrolls, epic recensions, Parry-Lord recordings. V2 narrows this family to true v…
Byzantine lead seals
PBW / Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine lead-seal corpora.
World claim
About the pre-print world outside the writing system itself -- trade, wages, politics, language, social structure, non-book craft; the written/materi…
Open conjectures — noetic, untested
Falsifiable questions posed below the evidence boundary by the 1001 Conjectures project. They are leads, not evidence, and carry no weight in this page's assessment.
- Horoscope stemmatics Anticipated in print · untested
- Formulas as error correction Anticipated in print · untested
- Benford audits Knossos Supported
- Ostraka machine politics Anticipated in print · untested
- Herodotus' multiplicative fog Anticipated in print · untested
- Obsidian regime shifts Anticipated in print · untested
From the One Thousand and One Conjectures. They carry no evidential weight here; verdicts and credits live on each conjecture's own page.