Volume / Number: 3 / **385
| CLA | **385 |
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| Shelfmarks |
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| Script | Rustic Capital |
| Date | I (31 BC–AD 79) (-31 - 79) |
| Origin and Provenance |
Written in Italy between 31 BC, the date of the battle of Actium, and AD 79, when Herculaneum was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius. Found in the excavations of 1752. The fragment containing col. 8 was given to Napoleon in 1809. Unrolled in 1805 by Camillo Paderni. Drawings exist by G. B. Malesci (1806), R. Biondi (1861), F. Biondi (1863), A. Cozzi (1907). Drawings made by John Hayter were presented to the University of Oxford in 1810. Others made by Nicola Ciampitti and now in the Museum at Naples, were in part published at Naples in 1809. All previously published facsimiles are based on drawings. |
| CLA Vol. | 3 |
| TM Number | TM 62682 |
| Support | Papyrus |
| Contents | Rabirius or Varius, Carmen de Bello Actiaco sive Alexandrino (fragm.). |
| Script Commentary |
Script is a graceful and rapid early type of Rustic capital: A is barred; the lower bow of B is oblique and protruding; the second and third strokes of H almost make a right angle; M and N are broad; the bow of R is small; U is wide and V-shaped. |
| Notes |
☛P. Herc. 817. ☛Steffens, Paléographie Pl. 3. |
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| Last modified | 18 July 2017 |