Volume / Number: 11 / 1667

• Wellesley, Mass. USA Wellesley College P. Oxy. 1404

Origin uncertain, presumably Egypt. Found at Oxyrhynchus and now numbered P. Oxy. 1404. The text is part of a Latin paraphrase of the fable of the dog carrying meat over a stream who was deceived by his own image in the water.

Script is sloping cursive by an expert scribe written across the fibres: A has three strokes: a straight oblique, a somewhat curving second stroke, and a vestigial transverse (see recto, second letter); B has the old cursive form; the two strokes of C intersect; E has two forms, including the V-shaped; M is made of four straight strokes, sometimes intersecting; S has the half-uncial form; the top of T is straight. On the verso written at right angles to the Latin are four lines of Greek, perhaps an account.

☛Cavenaile, CPL 38. ☛DCLP.