# Vesuvius Challenge 2024: Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded

> Vesuvius Challenge, 2024. 8 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Source for the 2023 Grand Prize, its text and Janko's attribution to Philodemus.

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# Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded

Vesuvius Challenge, 2024. _scrollprize.org_.

Announcement of 5 February 2024 that Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor and Julian Schilliger won US$700,000 for reading four 140-character passages and 11 further columns (over 2,000 characters) from PHerc. Paris. 4.

**Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge** Web pageCopy of **[PHerc. Paris. 4 (Vesuvius Challenge Scroll 1)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/artifacts/ART0D3686Z63881/pherc-paris-4-vesuvius-challenge-scroll-1)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Source for the 2023 Grand Prize, its text and Janko's attribution to Philodemus.

## Cited by on this site 8 records

[PHerc. Paris. 4 (Vesuvius Challenge Scroll 1)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/artifacts/ART0D3686Z63881/pherc-paris-4-vesuvius-challenge-scroll-1)

ART

[PHerc. Paris. 4 (Vesuvius Challenge Scroll 1): photo](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/copies/CPY0D3688684MSY/pherc-paris-4-vesuvius-challenge-scroll-1-photo)

CPY

[The 2023 passages from PHerc. Paris. 4 discuss pleasure in Epicurean terms and are very likely by Philodemus.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/evidence/EVD0D3681KA49DC/the-2023-passages-from-pherc-paris-4-discuss-pleasure-in)

Evidence

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[Nader, Farritor and Schilliger win the 2023 Grand Prize for PHerc. Paris. 4](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/events/EVT0D367TGR3MAQ/nader-farritor-and-schilliger-win-the-2023-grand-prize-for)

EVT

[Julian Schilliger](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/people/FIG0D367QTT0421/julian-schilliger)

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[Luke Farritor](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/people/FIG0D367QK061ET/luke-farritor)

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[Youssef Nader](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/people/FIG0D367QB6619R/youssef-nader)

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[The Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

```
Vesuvius Challenge (2024). Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded. scrollprize.org. https://scrollprize.org/grandprize
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[Read it free at scrollprize.org](https://scrollprize.org/grandprize)

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