Volume / Number: S / 1717

• Oxford United Kingdom Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Oxy. 2401

Written probably in Egypt, to judge by the Greek symptoms (the forms of A, and o). Found at Oxyrhynchus.

Script is a mixture of cursive, half-uncial, and Rustic elements which might be designated early half-uncial; it is to be compared with the Greco-Latin Virgil in Manchester, Milan, and Cairo (CLA 2.227, 3.367, and 10.**227) rather than with the Epitome of Livy (CLA 2.208 and 12.**208): A clearly shows Greek influence, is often very small, and has a curving oblique; d, p, and q often have small bows; g has two forms, one with a very small tail to the left as in early uncial, the other almost minuscule (vv. 641 and 654); H is Rustic capital; L often goes below the line as in cursive; m is broad; the thin middle stroke of N is frequently low and sagging; the influence of Greek cursive is evident in o, which is so compressed that it can be mistaken for i; r recalls the ancient cursive form; ꞅ is made in two strokes, the top stroke being a bold oblique line, now and then curving upwards as in the half-uncial parts of the Florentine Digests (CLA 3.295) and in Pap. Ant. 154 (CLA 12.1712).

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