The digital restoration of the Dublin Kephalaia codex and its importance for the history of religions

这是一个处于新兴的数字技术使用前沿的项目，可以使长期以来被认为是不可读的手稿变得清晰可辨。这本独特的四世纪抄本，自1929年以来一直为人所知，现藏于都柏林城堡的切斯特比蒂图书馆。图像增强的最新发展，特别是伪彩色技术，为悉尼大学领导的国际团队提供了第一次阅读和发表文本的机会。它的内容记录了东方和西方圣贤在波斯国王的宫廷里举行的关于宗教、人性和自然世界的讨论；并阐明了印度和地中海世界之间充满活力的文化交流，这是古代晚期的特征。

This is a project at the forefront of the emerging use of digital technology to render legible manuscripts long regarded as unreadable. The unique fourth century codex, now housed at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle, has been known of since 1929. The latest developments in image enhancement, especially the pseudocolour technique, offer the first chance for an international team led from the University of Sydney to read and publish the text. Its contents record discussions about religion, human nature and the natural world held by sages from East and West at the court of the Persian king; and illuminate the dynamic cultural interchange between India and the Mediterranean world that characterised late antiquity.