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What the Scrolls Were Worth
He had cut the sacred names ten thousand times. He had never once asked whether they were true.
Ephesus stands at the height of its confidence — the crowded harbour, the great temple on the hill, the craftsmen's quarter loud with a pilgrim city's trades. Philaretos copies the binding-names of the old Ephesian art: the curse-scrolls and healing-charms people pay good silver for. His is the surest hand in the quarter. Whether a name answers, once cut, was never the copyist's part.
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