These
small fragments fall into three groups of which one (a) gives us the beginnings
of 13 lines, the others, (b) and (c), the ends of 9 lines. We cannot establish
the relationship between the three groups, however. We may have the beginnings
and ends of lines in a single column of writing, with the middle of the lines
missing (but we cannot match beginnings and ends of individual lines); or we
may have the remains of a text in two columns, with the ends of lines in column
i and the beginnings of lines in column ii surviving; or we may have drafts of
two separate letters, possibly about the same subject, on the same leaf (cf.
Sijpesteijn and Worp (1977),
There
seems to be only one possible erasure, but the large diagonal strokes on the
fragments containing the ends of lines suggest that the draft was crossed out.
There are few clues to the subject-matter, but the occurrence of the word