 My name is Federica and today I'm here at the British Library in the manuscript's reading room. I'm going to share some of my favourite stories from around 1700 years ago. The virus documents supply first-hand information on the economy, society, geography, administration of Egypt during the Greco-Roman and late antique period, and offer lively glimpses into the everyday life of ordinary people. In the wake of the opening of the British Library's landmark exhibition Unfinished Business with Women as Protagonist, I have chosen a papyrus that tells a story of women's independence. In this document dated 263, a woman named Aurelia Faissos, also known as L'Olyane, writes to the highest authority of the country, the prefect of Egypt, to inform him that she qualifies for a privileged status known as the right of three children in Latin justrium liberorum, which granted free-born women with at least three children legal independence. That is the right to conduct their affairs without the assistance of any male guardians. Aurelia Faissos proudly states that she is able to write with a high degree of confidence, something that at that time it seems few women could claim. During the global pandemic, we have been working behind the scenes to make these treasures available to you on the British Library's online catalogue, Digitised Manuscripts. You can currently find over 1200 papyrus, and each of them is unique and tells a different story. I'd now like to show you a remarkable item from our collections, Papyrus 121, which used to be a roll over two metres long and is now housed in three frames. This is the entire roll on Digitised Manuscripts. We're looking at the last and smallest frame. It is a magical handbook providing instructions on how to perform magic by collecting a series of recipes for various purposes. For example, we find love spells, cures for incessants and daily diseases, alongside requests of trim oracles to have your questions answered, as well as spells to induce insomnia and defeat your enemies. This is a protective amulet, or fulacterion, meant to protect the person wearing it from any demons, suffering and disease. We find the common motif of the snake devouring its own tail accompanied by magical words and signs. The roll is also a rarity, because it is one of the only three papyrus known to date to preserve the so-called Homeromanteion, or Homer oracle. Here and the verses of the Homer oracle reads the entitled here. The oracle is based on 216 isolated lines taken from the Iliad and the Odyssey. After choosing the correct day and time for divination, the inquirer would throw the dice three times, obtaining a sequence of three numbers. The sequence would correspond to a specific line from the Iliad or Odyssey. For example, if I get 342, this would correspond to line 185 of the 22nd book of the Iliad, with the response of being, act in whatever way your mind is moved and no longer hold back. To learn more about the collection of Greek papyri here at the British Library and the stories of everyday life they preserve, please head to the British Library's online catalogue, Digitized Manuscripts.