Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/66
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Credit: Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    66/264 (page 38)
    33—36. Avery perplexing passage. The readings in ll. 34—36, though doubtful in details (see below), are fairly certain as a whole; hence in 1. 33 we ought to have 0 Ae AYyTOC ec; but KAI is practically certain, and KAI O AyTOC eC seems ruled out by the almost equally clear Tomer as hee 34. €CTIN: or ecTi; the N is excessively doubtful, but ecr is reasonably certain. For this position S. quotes H?®! 78, S. 6 8& avtog [éotiv] Nese & evepyiiv ta mate. 35. mafci]: very doubtful, especially the x. 36. AlA[o]TAI: all the dotted letters are excessively doubt- ful, and it is not certain that any letters occur after the lacuna; Diltteans lieo7, 838 the letters at the end. are very 4amt, and traces are probably to be recognized here. 38f. cympopon: S. cupogeov. cymdopon, which is not re- corded by S., is probably a scribal error rather than a genuine variant. 47. [MAAw]: there is not room for 6é (S.). Ae om. by MeomietOseh sito arm. | xap[iicm[ATA?]: this is the reading in S., but the space, though sufficient for two letters, is small for three, unless they were very much cramped, and it may be suspected that xApicmM[A] (so too Me it vg) was the actual reading here. It may be added that the dotted letters are all very indistinct, but there seems no reason to doubt the readings given. 48. en: very indistinct and consequently doubtful. 49. ayra@: so KA Qo Ku! K against most (excl., inter alia, mek i, sinany dl stay Ato Bos.; 5. evi. After nm there seems to be a small space; hence there may have been a point. Baie Gr 0.5, alter aand. om» also bySMpuil? t7% Jat 10208 it vg KA Bac. npod[HTA]: there is probably not room for Tela. 53. Ae (so S.) after AAAwW om. also by the authorities mentioned in note on |. 52, except Bac, and by arm. 54. [rlw[n] nn[majr@n: S. mvevpatwv, and no variant is recorded. Here the w seems almost certain, and though the remaining dotted letters are all extremely doubtful it is difficult