Volume / Number: S / 1705

• Oxford United Kingdom Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Antin. 1 fr. 1

Origin uncertain. Found at Antinoë and now deposited in the British Museum.

The half-uncial shows the uncial form of A with the bow markedly long and compressed; the hastas of both e and f are curved; the oblique of N is sinuous, resembling a reversed s; the shoulder of r is high and wavy; the stem of ꞇ resembles a c and its top is straight and unattached. The Rustic alphabet is remarkable for its sinuous serifs: likewise sinuous are the horizontals of E, F, and H; the tail of G resembles an oblique s reversed; the bow of P is very small; the upright of R descends below the line; the stem of Y rests on the line and the branches curve out. Over each half-uncial letter is superposed its Greek name, and the Greek consonants not found in the Latin alphabet are transliterated below the lines in ‘Capitalis Rustica’.

☛AfP 45 (1999), p. 32–38 (Kramer, Johannes (Jan); 1999; transcription, only Vo). ☛ChLA 4 259. ☛Cavenaile, CPL 58. ☛Milne, Greek shorthand manuals p. 7–9 & 70 no. Antinoë 1 fr. 1.