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PHerc. 172Scroll 5scroll
📍 Bodleian Library, Oxford
Recovered text
Philodemus, On Vices (Περὶ κακιῶν), Book 1 · Greek
Title recovered — Philodemus, On Vices, Book 1.
Photograph
3D model
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Stats
- Status
- Title found · 70% unrolled
- Segments
- 53
- Available pixel sizes
- 7.91 µm
- Scans
- 1
- Volumes
- 2
Reached: Text recovered
About this scroll
About 70% geometrically unrolled as of November 2025.
PHerc. 172 is a rolled Herculaneum papyrus from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, carbonized during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It was scanned at the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, UK. It is similar in size to PHerc. Paris 4 (Scroll 1).
Data & access
HTTP
https://vesuvius-challenge-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/PHerc0172/S3
s3://vesuvius-challenge-open-data/PHerc0172/.volpkg
https://dl.ash2txt.org/full-scrolls/Scroll5/PHerc172.volpkg/Ink detection & renders (2 images)
~70% geometrically unrolled (Nov 2025); title recovered from the unrolled surface (7.9µm).
Ink detection across five consecutive windings (71–75) of the unrolled surface (7.9µm) · full image ↗
Ink detection on a single unrolled winding (w087, 7.9µm) · full image ↗
Ink predictions (53 segments)
Ink detected on each flattened segment surface. Click a thumbnail to view it (← / → to step through); each segment also links to the full-resolution TIFF, and where available its surface layers in Neuroglancer and its mesh.
