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Artefact ID1247
TM IDTM 113252
Findspot (DEChriM ID)23   (al-Šayḫ ʿIbāda)
ClassTextual
MaterialParchment
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentLiterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

Schüssler sa 150

Two separate leaves once conjugate from a psalm codex in Coptic (S) preserving Ps 49:15-18.20-22, 52:6-7 and 53:3-6, extant page number (175/176) would point to an original size of 530-540 pages

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Biblical), Coptic language
Date from401
Date to500
Dating criteria

Palaeography, note that Orsini dates the texts 451-550

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Found in the northern necropolis, kôm 1 (square A2, level III, 18/VIII/1982)

Accession number

Current location unknown, probably Italian excavation storage magazine at al-Šayḫ ʿIbāda, inv. 345

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Delattre, Alain in Pintaudi, Rosario. 2008. Antinoupolis I, Scavi e materiali. Istituto papirologico „G. Vitelli“ 1. Florence: University Press, 131-133 #1 with pl. 1 on p. 155.

Additional bibliography

• Orsini, Pasquale. 2019. Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books, Studies in Manuscript Culture 15. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 128.

• Schüssler, Karlheinz (†). 2012. Das sahidische Alte und Neue Testament sa 121–184, bearbeitet von Frank Feder und Hans Förster, Biblia Coptica: Die koptischen Bibeltexte II/1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 83-84.

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 1247", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1247
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