Volume / Number: 8 / 1040

CLA	1040
Shelfmarks	Berlin Germany Staatliche Museen P. 11324 + P. 21295
Script	Early Half-Uncial
Date	V (401 - 500)
Origin and Provenance	Origin uncertain, presumably in the East; Arabia is mentioned in the text, and so is a petition to the emperor. Found at Hermopolis (El-Ashmunên), Egypt. Removed to Russia after 1945.
CLA Vol.	8
TM Number	TM 64538
Support	Parchment
Contents	Registrum Petitionum (fragm.); Ulpianus, De Officio Proconsuli (fragm.).
Script Commentary	Script is a curious early half-uncial of individual character with letters varying in size, showing some family resemblance to the Sallust papyrus in Oxford (CLA 2.246): a is looped at the head-line; 𐌾 is uncial and its bow is inflated; H is capital; I is mostly tall, L short and angular; the two uprights of N are unequal; S has the uncial form and descends below the line; the top of final ꞇ ends in an upward tag to the left.
Notes	☛Formerly Berlin, Staatliche Museen P. 11324.
Facsimile URL	https://berlpap.smb.museum/04489/
Last modified	28 June 2017