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Artefact ID1027
TM IDTM 107875
Findspot (DEChriM ID)52   (Ḫarabat Ihrīt)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentLiterary, Subliterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

P.Rain.UnterrichtKopt. 207

Notebook of four double leaves with syllabary (Coptic), names of biblical figures, and excerpts from Epistle to the Romans (Rom 1:1-8, 13-15 [9-12 left out] and Job (Job 1:1) as well as the alphabet

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Biblical), Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Nomina sacra, Coptic language
Date from301
Date to400
Dating criteria

Palaeography (see Kahle 1954: 251 with notes 1 and 2 arguing against his earlier preference of a late date, Kahle 1950: 150-151 note 14)

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Said to be from Theadelphia (according to the dealer)

Accession number

Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 926

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Husselman, Elinor Mullet. 1947. "A Bohairic School Text on Papyrus." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 6: 129-151.

Reference edition

• Hasitzka, Monika, unter Mitarbeit von Hermann Harrauer. 1990. Neue Texte und Dokumentation zum Koptisch-Unterricht, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Neue Serie 18. Wien: Brüder Hollinek, 133-140 #207.

Additional bibliography

• Bucking, Scott. 2011. Practice Makes Perfect: P. Cotsen-Princeton 1 and the Training of Scribes in Byzantine Egypt. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 99.

• Cramer, Maria. 1964. Koptische Paläographie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pl. 36-37.

• Kahle, Paul Eric. 1950. "A Biblical Fragment of the IVth–Vth Century in Semi-Bohairic." Le Muséon 63: 150-151 note 14 [147-157].

• Kahle, Paul Eric. 1954. Bala’izah. Coptic Texts from from Deir el-Bala’izah in Upper Egypt. Oxford: The Griffith Institute & Oxford University Press, 251 with notes 1 & 2, 274.

• Worrell, William Hoyt. 1942. Coptic Texts in the University of Michigan Collection, University of Michigan Studies. Humanistic Series 46. Ann Arbor & London: The University of Michigan Press & Humphrey Milford, The Oxford University Press, pl. V (No. 926).

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 1027", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1027
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