Alan, which fragment are you looking at today?
My job description at the Princeton Geniza Project is to look at uncatalogued or minimally catalogued documentary fragments, and while looking for these I came across T-S NS J479, a single page covered with strange symbols written in all directions. I’ve probably glanced at around 50,000 Genizah fragments by now, and I’ve never seen anything that looks like this.
What is it? Which language is it?
Most of it is written in what I think is a made-up code, though whether it was invented or... Read More