Volume / Number: 11 / 1653

• New York, N. Y. USA Pierpont Morgan Library H. Dunscombe Colt Collection Pap. 2

Written presumably in Egypt. A crude local product, doubtless a schoolbook. Found in Southern Palestine at the site of the ancient settlement of Nessana by the Colt Archaeological Expedition of 1937. Now deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.

Script is uncial with half-uncial (d, m) and cursive (L, i-longa) admixture: a and b have two forms; H is capital; i-longa is used irregularly and promiscuously; m is squarish; N limps, with the second upright distinctly shortened, a form probably due to Greek influence; O is narrow, here and there small; the bows of P and q are thin; S is large and goes below the line; U is broad and cup-shaped; Y is made with two strokes, not three, the second branch continued below the line. Greek influence seems apparent in the forms of E, I-longa, N, shrunken O, and Y.

☛Papyri Vergilianae 12 (date V ex–VI in). ☛Cavenaile, CPL 16.