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Recovered text

Read end to end — the lower parts of about twenty-two columns across roughly 1.4 m of papyrus, transcribed and reviewed by papyrologists. A philosophical treatise on ethics; the evidence points to a Stoic work, and its final preserved column names Aristocreon, nephew and disciple of the Stoic Chrysippus, placing it in the 2nd century BC.

⚠️ Only the compact inner core survives — about 8 cm of an original 19–24 cm height — after earlier attempts to open the scroll by hand destroyed its outer layers, so only the lower parts of the columns remain.