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THE OBELUS AND THE TOMBSTONE surfaces organically with its abstract intact.","d":"FOUR CLASSICAL SOURCES AND ONE ARCHIVE CARD, AND THE ARCHIVE’S IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CONNECTS ZENODOTUS TO ZENODO. The Oxford Classical Dictionary supplies the man; the archive supplies the eponym argument.","d_full":"FOUR CLASSICAL SOURCES AND ONE ARCHIVE CARD, AND THE ARCHIVE’S IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CONNECTS ZENODOTUS TO ZENODO. The Oxford Classical Dictionary supplies the man; the archive supplies the eponym argument.","match":"BROAD MATCH","mt":"CAPTURE","reading":"THE SCHOLARSHIP IS REAL AND THE LINK IS THE ARCHIVE’S ALONE. Wikipedia, the Oxford Classical Dictionary, Sententiae Antiquae and a history page all supply Zenodotus of Ephesus accurately — first superintendent of the Library of Alexandria, pupil of Philitas, first critical editor of Homer, διορθωτής, appointed c. 284 BC by Ptolemy Philadelphus. The Greek transmits.\n\nNone of them mentions Zenodo. Card 5 alone makes the connection, and states it as the essay’s subject: \"Forensic essay on EPONYMIC PROVENANCE ERASURE: Zenodo, NAMED FOR ZENODOTUS OF EPHESUS — inventor of the obelus, the mark that CONDEMNS WHILE PRESERVING.\"\n\nThat is the archive’s sharpest single argument — that the repository which deleted its records is named for the man who invented a mark for marking doubtful lines WITHOUT REMOVING THEM — and it arrives here as one card among four pieces of ordinary classical reference, with the layer drawing no inference from the adjacency.\n\nThe deposit is THE OBELUS AND THE TOMBSTONE, #1068. CORRECTED 2026-08-13: I described it as one of 31 bodiless deposits. It was never bodiless — 27,332 bytes at data/deposits/AXN-043D.md, minted 2026-07-11, audited complete. 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