Abbreviations

Literary Papyri

McNamee, K., Abbreviations in Greek Literary Papyri and Ostraca, BASP Suppl. 3, Chicago 1981

--, Sigla and Select Marginalia in Greek Literary Papyri, Pap.Brux. 26, 1992

--, Annotations in Greek and Latin Texts from Egypt. A.Stud.Pap. 45 (New Haven 2007)

Paap, A. H. R. E., Nomina Sacra in the Greek Papyri of the First Five Centuries, Pap.Lugd.-Bat. 8, Leiden 1959

Documentary Papyri

R.-E. s.v siglae (compiled by F. Bilabel; still useful but out of date).

There is no detailed modern study on the abbreviations used in the documentary papyri. Lists of some of the most commonly used abbreviations can be found at the end of Montevecchi's, La Papirologia, and in the indexes of P.Lond. as well as in A.Blanchard, Sigles et abreviations dans les papyrus documentaires grecs, BICS Suppl. 30, 1974.

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