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Volume / Number: 11 / 1643

CLA 1643
Shelfmarks
  • Allentown, Pa. USA Muhlenberg College Pap. Class. 5
Script Uncial
Date VI (501 - 600)
Origin and Provenance

Origin uncertain. Found at Oxyrhynchus and now numbered P. Oxy. 872. It is not certain whether the contents are verse or prose.

CLA Vol. 11
TM Number TM 62973
Support Parchment
Contents Vergilius, Aeneis (6.698–700, 706, 711).
Script Commentary

Script is broad uncial, not of the oldest type: the eye of E is closed; the upright strokes of N are very thin; the bow of R is full; S occurs in ligature with U at line-end.

Notes

☛Scappaticcio, Papyri Vergilianae 21 (date V). ☛Cavenaile, CPL 12.

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