Volume / Number: S / 1789

• Oxford United Kingdom Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Ant. 153

Origin uncertain, presumably an important centre of legal studies in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, possibly Berytos. Found at Antinoë.

Script is a distinct type of sloping early half-uncial found in a number of contemporary legal manuscripts, suggesting an important centre, of which the Fragmentum de Formula Fabiana (CLA 8.1042, 10.**1042) is the best known representative: A, G, and S have the uncial form; b, d, m, and r are half-uncial; c, e, and o are compressed; the tail of G is thin; the foot of L swings to the right below the line; the top of m and the shoulder of r are markedly square; the oblique of N is thin; the top of T is ticked upward at the left and downward at the right (cf. the juristic fragment in Oxford, cal 2.248); the lower part of u is square; thick and thin strokes are strongly contrasted. Extensive marginalia in the same type of script, but smaller and more rounded.

• Script: MSS with sloping uncial, half-uncial, or quarter-uncial marginalia