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Artefact ID1139
TM IDTM 107990
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentLiterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

P.Lond.Copt. I 521

Two fragments of a single folio from a homiletic or narrative hagiographic text in Coptic (F) mentioning the name Samuel; the proposed connection with Samuel of Kalamun (ca. 597–ca. 695) in the ed. princ. would collide with the suggested date (Diebner & Kasser 1989: 109)

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Hagiographic), Coptic language
Date from275
Date to325
Dating criteria

Palaeography, form of dialect

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Bought in Assiut/Lykopolis

Accession number

London, British Library, Or. 4919(5)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Crum, Walter Ewing. 1898. "Ein verlorenes Tempuspräfix im Koptischen." Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 37: 139–40.

Reference edition

• Diebner, Bernd Jørg, and Rodolphe Kasser. 1989. Hamburger Papyrus Bil. 1. Die alttestmentlichen Texte des Papyrus Bilinguis 1 der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg. "Canticum Canticorum" (coptice), "Lamentationes Ieremiae" (coptice), "Ecclesiastes" (graece et coptice), Cahiers d’Orientalisme. Geneva: Cramer, 108-110.

Additional bibliography

• Crum, Walter Ewing. 1905. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 251 #521.

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 1139", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1139