Volume / Number: 11 / 1652

• New York, N. Y. USA Pierpont Morgan Library H. Dunscombe Colt Collection Pap. 1

Written probably in Egypt, presumably as a school book and executed with great care. Found in Southern Palestine at the site of the ancient settlement of Nessana by the Colt Archaeological Expedition of 1937. Now deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.

Script is characteristic sloping half-uncial of an early type, with admixture of uncial elements and with strong contrast between thick and thin strokes: the bow of a is round; the upright stem of d joins the lower bow above the base-line; the hasta of f is on the base-line; G is uncial; L almost regularly extends horizontally beneath the next letter, a cursive survival; the tops of m and r are squarish; the oblique of N is thin; the bow of p is small, that of q ample; the lower stroke of s is a fine hair-line, making an angle with the oblique; the top of T is thickened at both ends; u is broad .

☛Scappaticcio, Papyri Vergilianae 6 (date V ex–VI in). ☛Cavenaile, CPL 8.