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Artefact ID1073
TM IDTM 108172
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentLiterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

Fragment of a single folio preserving Luke 9:13–15 & 19–20 in Coptic (S). Due to state of preservation, codicological details remain uncertain.

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Biblical), Coptic language
Date from301
Date to500
Dating criteria

Palaeography; acc. to TM, Orsini opts for a date in the 5th vs. the editorʼs date in the 4th cent.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts I.1.b.387.1 (6149); 

formerly St. Petersburg, Private collection V. S. Goleništšev, IG 6149 a

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

Elanskaya, Alla Ivanovna. 1991. Coptic Literary Texts in the Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow, Studia Aegyptiaca 13. Budapest: Chaire d’égyptologie de l’Université Loránd Eötvös, 263-264 & pl. LXII-LXIII.

• Elanskaya, Alla Ivanovna. 1994. The Literary Coptic Manuscripts in the A.S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow, Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 18. Leiden, New York & Köln: E. J. Brill, 446-447 & pl. CLXXII.

Additional bibliography

• Horner, George William. 1911. The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect otherwise called Sahidic or Thebaic III: The Gospel of S. John, Register of Fragments, etc., Facsimiles. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 350 #67.

• Schüssler, Karlheinz. 2010. Das sahidische Alte und Neue Testament sa 673–720, Biblia Coptica: Die koptischen Bibeltexte IV/3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 142 & Taf. 8.

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 1073", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1073
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