| Artefact ID | 1413 |
| TM ID | TM 64500 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Parchment |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Bodl. I 2 (p. 1-2, descr.). MS. Gr. bib. d. 2 (P) preserves parts of two sheets (= 4 leaves = 8 continuous pages) of a parchment codex written in one column per page containing Bel and the Dragon (TM 62330 / LDAB 3494). Height of the pages is 12.9 cm; the original breadth can be calculated at ca 9 cm. There are stitch-holes, one still with a piece of cord in it (which looks suspiciously modern acc. to ed.pr.). The codex is a palimpsest. According to Salomons 1996: 5, there are still some traces of what might have been the original p. 1-2, perhaps, after Nicholson: "a Christian work (homily?) in slight sloping majuscules (4th c.). Matthew IX 37-38 or Luke X 2 is quoted". See the summary catalogue of Western Mss in the Bodleian Library, no. 31074. About the following Latin text (TM 64903 / LDAB 6142), see now the edition in Scappaticcio 2014. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Theological), Biblical quote or paraphrase |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Assigned to 4 th by Nicholson; to 3rd or 4th c. by Van Haelst 1976. To judge from the size of the pages the 4th c. may be regarded as the terminus post quem for the old text, according to Salomons 1996. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Unknown. |
| Accession number | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Gr. bib. d. 2 (P) [old text of palimpsest] |
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