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Alan B wrote:

proudfootz wrote:If the ink is old, maybe it was an old pot of ink. [/apologist]

Unlikely in that heat...

You are, perhaps, correct - but 'unlikely' leaves a lot of wiggle room.

If you had a pot of 6th century ink, could whatever evaporated out of it to make it dry be re-introduced to make it useful again?