Volume / Number: S / 1791

• Oxford United Kingdom Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Oxy. 2624 Vo

Written probably in Egypt. Found at Oxyrhynchus. The terminus a quo for the Latin is furnished by the Greek uncial on the recto, assigned by experts to the first half of the second century.

Script, by an expert scribe, is ancient Roman cursive not of the oldest type: e is v-shaped, the hasta rising obliquely from the base of the upright; the tail of G is short, curving down to the left; the horizontal and final stroke of h form an acute angle; the foot of L goes below the line; m is made of two arches; the first stroke of N goes below the line; o is small and compressed, occasionally reduced to a mere dot; s is made of two strokes; u has a tendency to rise above the line, markedly so when joined to the following letter.

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