Volume / Number: S / 1681

• Cambridge United Kingdom University Library Add. MS 5902 (Pap. Oxy. 1315)

Written doubtless in Egypt. Found at Oxyrhynchus.

One mutilated papyrus fragment containing two incomplete alphabets manifestly written by a beginner copying his master’s exemplar or possibly by an aged teacher. The lines of ‘Capitalis’, as is proper, are distinctly large and stand first: the forms of G and h recall uncial. The smaller-scale half-uncial follows below: the bow of a is inflated and continues in a loop to form the rest of the letter as in Greek cursive; the horizontal top of g is detached from the s-like bow and tail. The Greek equivalent is superposed over some letters in Greek ‘lower case’. On the back is a line of rather large, inexpert half-uncial letters.

☛ChLA 4.234. ☛Scappaticcio, Papyri Vergilianae 18 (date IV). ☛Cavenaile, CPL 59.