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📍 Bodleian Library, Oxford

Recovered text

Philodemus, On Vices (Περὶ κακιῶν), Book 1 · Greek

Title recovered — Philodemus, On Vices, Book 1.

Photograph

Photograph of PHerc0172

3D model

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Stats

Status
Title found · 70% unrolled
Segments
53
Min pixel size
7.91 µm
Scans
1
Volumes
2
Reached: Text recovered

About this scroll

Scroll 5. ~70% geometrically unrolled by 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

Voxel size (min)
7.91 µm
Energies
53 keV
Source / beamline
DLS (Diamond Light Source)
Scans / volumes
1 / 2
Segments
53
Formats
CT volumes (TIFF stacks · OME-Zarr) · surface segments
License
CC BY-NC 4.0
HTTPhttps://vesuvius-challenge-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/PHerc0172/
S3s3://vesuvius-challenge-open-data/PHerc0172/
Full dataset (HTTP)https://data.aws.ash2txt.org/samples/PHerc0172/
Full dataset (S3)s3://vesuvius-challenge/PHerc0172/
.volpkghttps://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).

Scroll 5 — Ink detection across five consecutive windings (71–75) of the unrolled surface (7.9µm)
Ink detection across five consecutive windings (71–75) of the unrolled surface (7.9µm) · full image ↗
Scroll 5 — Ink detection on a single unrolled winding (w087, 7.9µm)
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.

Scroll 5 ink prediction — segment auto-grown 0auto-grown 0 · 7.91µmjpg ↗tif ↗3D ↗mesh ↗
Scroll 5 ink prediction — segment auto-grown 1auto-grown 1 · 7.91µmjpg ↗tif ↗3D ↗mesh ↗
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Scroll 5 ink prediction — segment auto-grown 5auto-grown 5 · 7.91µmjpg ↗tif ↗3D ↗mesh ↗
Scroll 5 ink prediction — segment auto-grown 6auto-grown 6 · 7.91µmjpg ↗tif ↗3D ↗mesh ↗
Scroll 5 ink prediction — segment auto-grown 7auto-grown 7 · 7.91µmjpg ↗tif ↗3D ↗mesh ↗
Scroll 5 ink prediction — segment auto-grown 8auto-grown 8 · 7.91µmjpg ↗tif ↗3D ↗mesh ↗