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Papyrologist Malcolm Choat characterizes the seemingly intractable
debate of whether or not to publish unprovenanced texts as pitting
archaeologists, nobly saving the past for the future, against those
who abet the evil of the antiquities trade through their scholarly
study and academic imprimatur.[1] Both Choat[2] and I want to move
beyond this false dichotomy of heroes and villains, but the lure of
unstudied shiny, pretty things is strong—very, very strong, leading
textual scholars to agree that just as “haters gonna hate,” “scholars
gonna publish”[3] with or without provenance.