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- Utrecht University announced a third-century Homeric Odyssey fragment.
- Professor Mark de Kreij (Radboud University) identified it while reviewing Greek manuscripts.
- The parchment holds Book 12 verses where Helios confronts Odysseus’ crew for killing cattle.
- Researchers date it to third or fourth century AD and associate it with a reader in Fayum.
- About 30 Homeric fragments are known, with Austrian papyrologist Anna Dolganov and de Kreij disputing its anthology versus complete-copy status.