Verify the Sinai Palimpsests Project figures (74 palimpsests / 6,800 pages / 305 erased texts, 2011–2016) against a second or primary source
claim-sinai-palimpsests-multispectral-imaging-recovered-erased-texts carries three specific quantitative figures — 74 palimpsests imaged, 6,800 pages, 305 erased texts identified — and a date range (2011–2016), all resting on a single Tier 2 source: the project's own EMEL page. Quantitative claims want a primary or convergent source before going evergreen, and institutional project pages sometimes round or update these counts.
What would answer it:
- Cross-check the 74 / 6,800 / 305 figures and the 2011–2016 span against a second source: the UCLA Library / St. Catherine's Monastery project pages, the project's academic publications or grant reports, or named scholarly coverage.
- Confirm the claim that some recovered texts were in previously unattested languages/versions (e.g. Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Caucasian Albanian), and whether the 170+ total palimpsests figure the capture mentions is corroborated.
Resolving this upgrades the note from single-venue seedling toward budding.
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