By the by, I think you mean a stenotype machine or a stenograph.

And yes, in Jesus' time those were kept in cave holes near the Nag Hammadi scrolls. Unfortunately, people at the time couldn’t figure out how to spin a pot around them so they’d be protected for the ages and of course, they were too easily found by tomb raiders with metal detectors long before the modern age.

It’s a damned travesty when you think about it. Unfathomable loss to archaeology. Such a shame.

They should have just stuck with papyrus like a normal person. I guess they did the best they could what with several years of papyrus reed crop failure. Still. So unfortunate.