A 3rd century papyrus conjugating γράφω in the indicative

Here is a truly fascinating item. It’s a leaf of papyrus from Oxyrhynchus. On it, someone has drawn out a table of the forms of the Greek verb γράφω (“I write”)! Here’s a splendid image of the verso: What is displayed here is the forms of the verb, and these are labelled, much as they would be in a modern text. How fascinating to see this! The first side of the papyrus, the recto, shows the perfect and pluperfect indicative active forms. This side of the papyrus, the verso, shows the middle/passive forms. Indeed at the top of the page it states “τούτων παθητικὰ ἐνεστῶτος” = “The present passive forms of these”. Then there is a line of dashes below. In the margins, letters indicating whether each block is singular, dual, or plural. The first blocks on the left are the present indicative middle/passive. These start with “alpha” – the singular, given as today in order, 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person: Γραφομαι Γραφη Γραφεται Then a delta – “dual” and then these forms: γραφόμεθον…