Fragments of literary papyri from the collection of the Oslo University Library, I: Herodotus 9.74-75

Abstract

This publication brings together description, transcription and commentary on part of a literary text, identifiable as Herodotus 9.74-75, preserved on a papyrus fragment from Egypt, now owned by the Oslo University Library. The hand is a fluent sample of the sloping variant of the "formal mixed" ("severe") style. The neatness of the handwriting and other format details suggest that the fragment originally belonged to a book-roll penned by a professional scribe.