Wadi Sarga Coptic and Greek Texts from the excavations ...

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TKXTS.
95 f. KX[I oy.A.onu>]: S. xai cuo' CUTW;, and since the fragment
containing, in col. i, the number PMZ and, in col. 2,
11. 968, is detached from the rest, it is not possible to say
for certain that that was not the reading here; but oyA. oy
would certainly have made 1. 95 project into the margin, and
TCOC in 1. 96 would indicate a lacuna difficult to fill in 1. 97,
since TA would be too short and CONTA (no other division is
likely) too long. For oyA.enu> S. quotes Ial i28f(ggO. The same
authorities, with 63i 7 read eicAKoyceTAi, and in 1. 97 cerx, as
against TCJDC in 1. 96, would be more manageable than CONTA,
but on the whole the readings in the text seem the most likely.
98. Very puzzling. S., who has Xeysi y.upioc. wore a! -{fMSson,
quotes no variants to either reading; so that the text here given
involves two unrecorded variants, one of them an obvious
blunder, but it seems difficult to escape from it, as all the
letters ic A.I are practically certain; KC does not seem possible.
A.IO, though not recorded, is an easy variant; o ic might arise
from the scribe's misunderstanding an abbreviated gloss giving
a reference to HC(AIAC).
ro3. The traces read ei are very faint; of the A at the
end very little remains. Between it and o there is a piece of
vellum,
but the traces which are visible are too indistinct for
any reading. Several of the readings of individual letters in
11. 104 and 105 are doubtful, but the text seems established.
TC'.oreuoua'.v is the reading of S. ; I al I028f vg
have nicroic.
106. oyti: the letters are not perfectly clear, but o seems
certain. This involves the reading given in the text (so S.) as
against
I al I028f *
cytieiccAGH.
etc., which omit OY" and /^Jzeo^ which have
109 f. The A' reading, against
/at 1026 ff etc t>
j s rAu)CCAIC AAACJDCItl.
most of the H MSS. and
1 10. Most of the dotted letters are very doubtful, and the
reading cannot be absolutely vouched for. The A., though faint,
is probable, but o has disappeared from the surface of the
papyrus.
in. KAI: so (against S.) I al 200> 36 359 628 368 . H
n xnicroi.
11 omits