Egyptian papyri & ostraca
Kill-instrument — a dataset that can test conjecturesdocumentary papyri and ostraca of Egypt (DDbDP/HGV/Trismegistos) -- cartonnage, the Zenon archive, Deir el-Medina.
Emergent lineage
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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…
Egyptian papyrological and epigraphic worlds
Egypt is the pre-print world's great survival anomaly: desert aridity preserved hundreds of thousands of papyri and ostraca — tax receipts, private l…
Manuscript and scribal production
Anonymous hands, production teams, witness families, codices, scribal layers, and manuscript-workshop lacunae.
World claim
About the pre-print world outside the writing system itself -- trade, wages, politics, language, social structure, non-book craft; the written/materi…
African manuscript and source ecologies
Manuscript, archive, inscriptional, and source-route lacunae in African pre-print and long manuscript ecologies.
Technical, recipe, and scientific texts
Recipe strata, agronomic source chains, astronomical catalogues, herbals, and practical technical corpora.
Market equilibrium, price, and arbitrage
Price theory supplies a family of iron predictions: arbitrage equalizes the returns to substitutable activities, a resale market caps what new produc…
Published editions
critical and documentary print editions used as countable data (Meersseman, Glorieux, MGH, Kaeppeli, Schwartz's Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, and o…
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.
- Buried at Thebes, copied at Byzantium Already answered
- Counterfeit was the seed of the art Already answered
- One hour of sound from three thousand years Already answered
- The copyist kept the words and dropped the tune Already answered
- Ice-core money supply Already answered
- Poisson pyramids 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.