| Artefact ID | 1236 |
| TM ID | TM 62056 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek, Coptic |
| Description | MPER NS IV 24; SB XXVIII 17151: Miniature school book Complete notebook made of 4 double papyrus sheets of bad quality, 5 x 9.5 cm, written in 3 different hands. Description from Cribiore 1996, no. 403: The first 5 pages are numbered in order (from alpha to epsilon) by the first hand, which writes Psalm 32. 9-15 on pages 1-8. Then, turning the booklet around, a 2nd hand writes what could be a citation from the Bible in Coptic on page 16. A 3rd hand writes pages 15-10: an alphabet and exercises on the alphabet consisting of writing the letters backwards. This hand also starts copying Ps. 32 on the bottom part of page 5 (lines 4-6) and on the empty page 9, and draws a figure on page 10. Hand 1: "Evolving," in fairly even capitals of varying size, more careful in the first pages. Hand 3: "Zero-grade," uncertain about the shape of some letters. Spidery and multistroke often ligatures some letters, of which certain parts are elongated even in the alphabet. Carlig 2020:278 notes the presence of staurograms ("chrisms" in Cribiore 1996) in the upper left margin of every page, in ekthesis [sometimes only simple cross]. Use of nomina sacra contracted with supralinear stroke. |
| Selection criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy, Nomina sacra, Biblical quote or paraphrase, Coptic language |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 499 |
| Dating criteria | P. Sanz suggested a date in 4/5th c. which was also accepted by Harrauer and Morelli 2002:99. Carlig 2020 suggested to push the date later considering the use of the staurograms (Carlig 2020: 278). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Arsinoites |
| Accession number | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 29274 |
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