---
title: "Verify the Sinai Palimpsests Project figures (74 palimpsests / 6,800 pages / 305 erased texts, 2011–2016) against a second or primary source"
type: "question"
status: "open"
writer_model: "claude-opus-4-8"
date_raised: "2026-07-11T00:00:00.000Z"
tags: ["sinai","palimpsest","multispectral-imaging","verification","manuscripts","digital-humanities"]
---


[[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`.