Volume / Number: S / 1695

• Florence Italy Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana PSI 1307 Vo

Written doubtless in Egypt. The recto contains a Latin military text concerning a Roman legion in Egypt which, according to expert opinion, may be assigned on the basis of its content to the first half of the first century AD, a date which confirms our judgment of the verso.

A single mutilated papyrus fragment, now measuring 185 × 240 mm.; several letters from two identical lines and three letters from a third line survive on the lower half of the fragment. The bold, expert lettering of the two lines of Latin, resembling Pompeian mural inscriptions, suggests a date of the first century; the Greek line (above the Latin in the original) likewise shows similarity to the Latin Pompeian electoral signs.

☛PSI 13 1307 Vo. ☛Cavenaile, CPL 61. ☛Scappaticcio, Papyri Vergilianae 29. ☛Text on recto: PSI 13 1307 Ro (ChLA 25 786. Cavenaile, CPL 108). ☛DCLP.