Volume / Number: S1 / 1817

• Cairo Egypt Egyptian Museum P. Qasr Ibrim 78-3-11/1 (LI/2)

Written in ltaly or possibly (during Gallus’s Egyptian prefecture) in Egypt. Found in 1978 in Qasr Ibrîm in a refuse deposit.

Script is a small slightly uneven Rustic Capitai and constitutes one of the oldest examples of this type of writing. In the Gallus fragment A is barred; upper loop of B and R is narrow; M and N are broad; O has sometimes a pointed, sometimes a flattened top; V is often rather broad; Y is formed like Greek upsilon.

☛Mertens-Pack 2924.1. ☛For authenticity, see M. Capasso and P. Radociotti, Pap. Lupiensia 8 (1999) 117–35; Pap. Lupiensia 11 (2002) 249–51; P. A. Gagliardi, Prometheus 36 (2010) 55 n.1; P. Gagliardi, ZPE 176 (2011) 82–95; S. Ammirati, Scripta 3 (2010) 33–4. ☛DCLP