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Oxyrhynchus:
A City and its Texts, Virtual Exhibition: Excavations
and Finds
Plato, Phaedo: Late first century / early second century AD
On the left, a careful copy of Plato’s dialogue Phaedo written
in a tiny rounded informal capital very similar
(if not identical, as E. Lobel and E. G. Turner optimistically
claimed) to that in the Sappho text (P.Oxy. 2076:
shown on the right of this image). The scribe marked change of speaker with the
placement of a thin line (paragraphos) underneath the beginning
of the line in which the change occurs, and also added accents, a few breathings,
some punctuation, and critical marks in the margin. The textual tradition followed
by the papyrus is interesting and in keeping with modern editions but eclectic
as regards the mediaeval mss. In the upper margin a scholarly annotation has
been penned by a smaller and more cursive hand.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. XV no. 1809 |
