Description
The codex contains only a small part of the Gospel of Matthew 24:9-21, on one parchment leaf (30 cm by 24 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 20 lines per page, in a large uncial letters. It is a palimpsest. The upper text is in Greek. It contains menaeon (see Uncial 0120, Uncial 0133).
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.
It was discovered in Saloniki.
Currently the codex is housed at the Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη (Or. 2106) at Athens.
Read more about this topic: Uncial 094
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