Volume / Number: S / 1715

• Oxford United Kingdom Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Oxy. 2089

Written probably in some important legal centre in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. Found at Oxyrhynchus. Could not be located in 1965.

Script is a well-written, smallish uncial of the b-d type, to be compared with Pap. Ant. 22, CLA 12.1707): the thick vertical strokes contrast sharply with the thin horizontals; the bow of A is pointed; b and d have the half-uncial form; the bow of d is broad; the hasta of E is central with a thickening at the end; the tail of G is short and thick and drops straight down; L goes below the line and forms a right angle at the foot; M is broad; the oblique of N is a hair-line; the thick first stroke of R goes below the line and the final stroke is a straight oblique hair-line; the top of T is thin with downward thickenings at both ends.

☛S. Ammirati, JJP 40 (2010), p. 77. ☛Formerly London, Egypt Exploration Society. ☛DCLP.

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