Insights into the Digital Recovery of the Scythica Vindobonensia

Abstract

The article provides insights into the digital recovery of the Scythica Vindobonensia, the new fragments on Gothic incursions into Roman provinces in the Balkans in the 3rd century AD, which were discovered some years ago in four palimpsest folios of the Greek manuscript Hist. gr. 73 of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. The fragments come most probably from the lost work Scythica by the 3rd-century historian Dexippus of Athens. In order to render the palimpsested writing of the 11th-century copy of the ancient text visible, the involved scholars invited several technical and scientific teams who provide state-of-the-art expertise in the field of digital recovery of erased writings to apply non-invasive imaging and advanced image processing on the Vienna palimpsest