Page sizes as confirmation of the page hypothesis

Each set of original documents (archetypes) is listed in order of decreasing page size (Greek letters per page). The blank lines in each table are intended to highlight the fact that the derived page sizes turn out to fall into distinct groups.

This result provides very strong evidence for the validity of the page hypothesis because the number of pages posited for an archetype is closely related to its structure on the hypothesis that each writer planned his document by allocating one or more pages to each section. Therefore page sizes emerged as an incidental consequence of establishing the documents' structures.

Some smaller documents are not included because their structures (if any) and page sizes are uncertain.