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Malcolm Choat

@malfy-c.bsky.social
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Historian, papyrologist, Coptologist: forgery, authenticity, ethics, and provenance; scribal practice in Greek and Coptic papyri; Coptic monasticism & first millennium Egypt.

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Malcolm Choat @malfy-c.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Version 2 of our Forging Antiquity Database of forged papyri and related fakes is now up, containing 561 fake manuscripts of many different sorts! The database is at www.forgingantiquity.com/forgeries, and an accompanying blog post at markersofauthenticity.com/2026/08/28/v...
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Forging Antiquity
Forging Antiquity : The website for the Australian Research Council Discovery Project: Forging Antiquity: Authenticity, forgery and fake papyri
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Michael Press @michaeldpress.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Laundering looted antiquities through the use of an old collection? Forged provenance documentation? I investigate the case of Cumberland Clark, a forgotten early 20th-century collector who has become relevant again doi.org/10.1017/S094...
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Constructing Provenance with Old Collections: The Case of Cumberland Clark | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core
Constructing Provenance with Old Collections: The Case of Cumberland Clark
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