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Artefact ID	1429
TM ID	TM 63986
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Subliterary
Language	Greek
Description	BKT VI 6,1; Van Haelst 722: Collection of five liturgical prayers. Prayers 1 & 2 are fragmentary, Prayer 3 is a personal Christian prayer, Prayer 4 is the final prayer from the Hermetic Poimandres, and Prayer 5 is titled “Prayer of the Apostles, Peter and others” containing biblical quotations. Structured into three columns, of which two are heavily damaged, Column 1 missing the beginnings of lines, and Column 3 missing the line ends. Fill strokes featured at the end of some lines. The verso is empty. Nomina sacra with supralinear stroke (ΙΥ ΧΥ [l. 62] = Ἰ(ησο)ῦ Χ(ριστο)ῦ; written out in l. 12 as Ἰ]ησοῦ Χρηστοῦ).
Selection criteria	Subliterary genre (Liturgical), Nomina sacra, Biblical quote or paraphrase
Date from	350
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography: dated to the 3rd c. by the ed.pr., now placed in the late 4th c. by Mihálykó 2019 (compare P.Ammon I 4 [348 CE], P.Oxy. XXII 2347 [362 CE], P.Lips I 62 [385 CE]).
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown; Purchased for the museum in 1902 by Otto Rubensohn using the Papyrus Fonds.
Accession number	Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 9794

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Schmidt, Carl and Wilhelm Schubart. 1910. Berliner Klassikertexte VI: Altchristliche Texte. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. 110-117, No. 6(1).

Additional bibliography
• Cabrol, Fernand and Henri Leclercq. 1913. Relliquiae Liturgicae Vetustissimae. Monumenta Ecclesiae Liturgica, Vol. I, Sectio II. Paris: Firmin Didot. 189-192.
• del Grande, Carolus. 1928. Liturgiae Preces Hymni Christianorum e Papyris Collecti. Naples: Federico & Ardia. 16.
• Deiss, Lucien. 1963. Hymnes et Prières des Premiers Siècles. Paris: Editions Fleurus. 183-186.
• Dodd, Charles H. 1935. The Bible and the Greeks. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 194-203.
• McNeil, Brian. 1976. “A Note on P. Berol. 9794.” Numen. International Review for the History of Religions 23(3): 239-240.
• Merkelbach, Reinhold and Maria Totti. 1991. Abrasax. Ausgewählte Papyri Religiösen und Magischen Inhalts. Band 2: Gebete (Fortsetzung). Wiesbaden: Springer. 123-130. Taf. 4.
• Mihálykó, Ágnes T. 2019. The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 35-36, 227-228, 230.
• Nock, Albert D. and André-Jean Festugière. 1960. Corpus Hermeticum I. Traités I-XII. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. xxxvii.
• Pearson, Birger A. 1981. “Jewish Elements in Corpus Hermeticum I (Poimandres).” In Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions Presented to Gilles Quispel on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, edited by Roel Van den Brock and Maarten J. Vermaseren. Leiden: Brill, 336-348: 342n24.
• Reitzenstein, Richard. 1910. “Zwei angeblich christliche liturgische Gebete. I.” In Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse aus dem Jahre 1910. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. 324-329.
• Reitzenstein, Richard and Hans Heinrich Schaeder. 1926. Studien zum antiken Synkretismus aus Iran und Griechenland. Wiesbaden: Springer. 160-161.
• Totti, Maria. 1985. Ausgewählte Texte der Isis- und Sarapis-Religion. Hildesheim: Georg Olms. 204-209, No. 81.
• van Haelst, Joseph. 1976. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 263, No. 722.
• Wessely, Carl. 1924. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II”. Patrologia Orientalis 18(3). 429-433, No. 2.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022, "Artefact ID 1429", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1429

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TM 63986 / LDAB 5201 DCLP (PN) BerlPap

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