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Volume / Number: 3 / 291

CLA 291
Shelfmarks
  • Florence Italy Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 18769 (P. S. I. 848)
Script Early Half-Uncial
Date III–IV (280 - 320)
Origin and Provenance

Written probably in Egypt. Bought in 1924 at Medinêt-el-Fayûm by Professor Capovilla, who presented it to the Società Italiana per la ricerca dei Papiri greci e latini in Egitto.

CLA Vol. 3
TM Number TM 59043
Support Papyrus
Contents Aesopica Graeco-Latina; Ps- Dositheus (fragm.).
Script Commentary

The Latin script is an early roundish half-uncial: A is still uncial; the hasta of uncial E is rather high; the bow of q is a longish oval; f, l, and r go far below the line; u is cup-shaped. Some experts do not hesitate to assign the Greek script to the third century.

Notes

☛Cavenaile, CPL 39. ☛DCLP.

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