Charta Borgiana

The Charta Borgiana (TM 8749 ) is the first Greek papyrus to be studied in the west. According to legend, it is the only surviving one of fifty papyri offered for purchase to a merchant in 1778 near Memphis, the remaining ones reportedly burnt for their allegedly delicious fragrance. In any case the document ended up in the possession of cardinal Stefano Borgia and was published by the Danish scholar Niels Iversen Schow.
Its contents, a late second century 15+ column financial report on infrastructural work in the Fayum, seems to have been very disappointing to the scholarly world, which had hoped for new literary texts from antiquity. The papyrus now is in Naples.