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Volume / Number: 10 / 1570

CLA 1570
Shelfmarks
  • Alexandria Egypt Bibliotheca Alexandrina 202
Script Cursive
Date IV vel V (301 - 500)
Origin and Provenance

Written doubtless in Egypt, perhaps by a schoolmaster. Provenance unknown. The leaf could not be located in 1960.

CLA Vol. 10
TM Number TM 62962
Support Parchment
Contents Vergilius, Aeneis (3.444–68), with Greek translation.
Script Commentary

Script is cursive by a practised hand, with some resemblance, both in general aspect and in individual letters, to the accompanying Greek script: d and Greek δ are identical; n and Greek ν both have the N form (testibus MM. Guéraud and Jouguet)

Notes

☛Scappaticcio, Papyri Vergilianae 15 (date V in). ☛Cavenaile, CPL 6. ☛Formerly Cairo, Collection Fouad 202. ☛Formerly Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE 72044.

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