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Artefact ID1069
TM IDTM 128634
Findspot (DEChriM ID)12   (Ismant al-Ḫarāb)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumUncertain
Text contentLiterary, Uncertain
LanguageSyriac
Description

P.Kellis VI Syr. 2: A papyrus fragment containing an unknown text. Only a few words are legible, and no religious terms can be discerned, but all other Syriac fragments from Kellis can be placed within a Manichaean literary tradition. The script agrees with that used by other Manichaean Syriac documents.

Selection criteriaArchaeological context associated with Christian markers
Date from350
Date to392
Dating criteria

Archaeological context

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Structure D/8, room 1, level 5

Accession number

Kellis, excavations Dakleh Oasis Project 1986-2010, inv. P.96.2 (i) (originally part of P.96.16)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Franzmann, Marjella. 2007. “P.Kellis VI Syr. 2”. In Kellis Literary Texts, Vol. 2, edited by I. Gardner, with contributions by M. Choat, M. Franzmann, W.-P. Funk and K.A. Worp. Oxford: Oxbow, 136–137.

Additional bibliography

• Larsen, John Møller. 2013. “Ch. 3: The Script of the Fragments”. In Manichaean Texts in Syriac, edited by N. A. Pedersen and J. M. Larsen, with contributions from Z. Gulacsi and M. Krutzsch. Turnhout: Brepols, 180–181.

Authors
Håkon F. Teigen, Victor Ghica, 2022, 2024
Suggested citation
Håkon F. Teigen, Victor Ghica, 2022, 2024, "Artefact ID 1069", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1069
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