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Volume / Number: S1 / 1816

CLA 1816
Shelfmarks
  • Cairo Egypt Egyptian Museum P. Medinet Madi 66.362 (JdE 1/11/67/3)
Script Mixed Rustic Capital
Date I² (51 - 100)
Origin and Provenance

Origin uncertain. Found in 1966 at Medînet Mâdi (Narmuthis), Egypt.
CLA Vol. S1
TM Number TM 62946
Support Papyrus
Contents Vergilius, Bucolica (8.53–62).
Script Commentary

Script is Rustic Capital in the transitional stage: A has no bar; D and E approximate to the uncial forms; the foot of L goes below the base-line; R resembles A; there is no distinction made between thick and thin strokes.
Notes

☛CLA date (II¹ (?)) changed to follow S. Ammirati, Scripta 3 (2010), p. 41–2. ☛Scappaticcio, Papyri Vergilianae 31, also dates to I². ☛DCLP.
Collection
Last modified 10 July 2021