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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

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    115. It does not seem possible that room can be found in the lacuna for reywemic. Probably there was an accidental omission or a false reading (e. g. npopuTaAr). Even ‘ric anic in l. 116 is a good deal for the space, and possibly Tic was omitted, with, Pies Oocss, 118: The 'é is just above.the nm at the beginning of 1. 119: Perhaps therefore the apparent A is not really a letter, and we should read [THe] €[Aerxera]t. 121. So S. The K ‘text inserts kKAl oyrawc before Ta. 422. The vellum is much blackened at ‘the beginning: of this and the following lines, and the dotted and Kk are very indistinct, as are pane in |. 123. 2A 120. Very difficult. Considerations of space seem to make it certain that the text of S. (which, apart from unimpor- tant variants, is well established) cannot be found here, and we must suppose either a real variant not met with elsewhere or a mere blunder. The reading given, if established, may be the latter, but moorecwy for mechy én! codcwrey is quite possible, and a real variant seems more likely. “It cannot-indeed be re- garded as certain but seems the likeliest. KAI is very indistinct but quite possible, o probable. At the end of |. 124 po can be accepted with some confidence, and cn are not difficult to read. o[....., Je suggests ofyrw]G, @ being a broad letter: Im lo i25 nec | is likelier than non; and though npo[cw] might be read in 1. 124 if we suppose the vellum to have been rubbed as well as discoloured, this is not very satisfactory; nor does it seem possible to read KAI c[m mp]ocw; the p is almost certain. * 127—8, The readings at the end of 127 are very doubt- ful, and at the beginning of 128, though the vellum is whole, the traces are too much obliterated for any reading, but as ONT@[C] seems certain, the above text, that of A, is established. 129. OY: the stroke (for ) is not certain, but ™ was cer- tainly not written at the beginning of 1. 130. 132. K adds ymoon after EKACTOC. 140. rei; this is likelier than m-for reasons of space. 141. NECclewm - Eire]: the dot is inserted because without it (or a blank space) the line would be rather short.