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Artefact ID1210
TM IDTM 64494
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

SB XXIV 16340: List of Christian Books.

Fragment of a sheet of papyrus, broken at top, bottom and right side, containing an extract from a library catalogue listing titles of Biblical and Theological books: Old Testament (Leviticus, Job, Exodus, Numbers), New Testament (Gospels [Mega biblion], Acts of the Apostles), the Shepherd of Hermas, works of Origen and anonymous commentaries. Before every title appears the mention "derma", meaning "parchment" (and as such, codices) or maybe just "book".

Recto: rapid and slanting cursive running along the fibres, 17 lines; verso is blank.

Selection criteriaChristian terms/formulas/concepts, Biblical quote or paraphrase
Date from325
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography: the ed. compares the hand with BGU II 408 (312, Philadelphia) but spciefies that P.Ash.inv. 3. is "somewhat later and in a finer hand".

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum P. 3

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Roberts, Colin Henderson. 1938. "Two Oxford Papyri." Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 37, 184-188 [3].

Additional bibliography

• Mazy, Élodie. 2019. "Livres chrétiens et bibliothèques en Egypte pendant l'Antiquité tardive: Le témoignage des papyrus et ostraca documentaires". Journal of Coptic Studies 21, 115-162.

• Otranto, Rosa. 2000. Antiche liste di libri su papiro. Rome, no. 1, p. 126.

• Otranto, Rosa. 1997. "Alia tempora, alii libri: Notizie ed elenchi di libri cristiani su papiro". Aegyptus 77, 101-124 [104-106].

• van Haelst, Joseph. 1976. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris, no. 1192 descr.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1210", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1210
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