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Artefact ID	1444
TM ID	TM 62030
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	53 (Ǧabal Mūsā)
Class	Textual
Material	Parchment
Writing medium	Codex
Text content	Literary
Language	Greek
Description	Rahlfs 932: Four fragments from Judges and Ruth Two pages assumed to be from the same two-column codex are preserved as two fragments each. The first fragment-pair (Fragment 2) contains Judges 20,22; the two fragments are glued together and are overlapping. The full page must have featured at least 37 lines. The second, more extensive fragment-pair (Fragment 3, 24 x 14 cm), containing Ruth 2,19-23 and 3,4-7, is fixed on opposite sides of a piece of cardboard, and is thus legible on only one side each. The page contained 43 lines in total. Besides the similarity in the writer’s hand, a common feature on all fragments is that the first letter of a line is written larger at times. For Rahlfs/Fraenkel 2004, the difference of 37 vs. 43 lines per page also does not rule out their belonging to a single codex, since a higher line density towards the end of a document is well-attested. Nomen sacrum: κς.
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Biblical), Nomina sacra
Date from	300
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; Harris 1890 refers to the Codex Vaticanus (B) as a similar writing style, dating it to the 4th c.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown. Viewed by J. Rendel Harris in Spring 1889 in the library of the Monastery of St. Catherine. Catalogued by Harris for A. Smith Lewis, who visited St. Catherine's in February 1893.
Accession number	Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery, Harris fr. 2-3

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Harris, James Rendel. 1890. Biblical Fragments from Mount Sinai. London: C. J. Clay and Sons. vii-viii, 2-3, No. 2-3.

Additional bibliography
• Brooke, Alan England and Norman McLean. 1917. The Old Testament in Greek. According to the Text of Codex Vaticanus, Supplemented from Other Uncial Manuscripts, with a Critical Apparatus Containing the Variants of the Chief Ancient Authorities for the Text of the Septuagint. Volume I, Part IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. v-vi.
• Rahlfs, Alfred, and Detlef Fraenkel. 2004. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Vol. 1.1: Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 362-363, Sigel 932.
• Smith Lewis, Agnes. 1894. “Appendix: Fragments, Chiefly Greek.” Catalogue of the Syriac Mss. in the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount Sinai. Studia Sinaitica No. 1. London: C. J. Clay and Sons. 96-97, No. 2-3.
• Turner, Eric G. 1977. The Typology of the Early Codex. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 168, OT 46.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022, "Artefact ID 1444", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1444

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External links

TM 62030 / LDAB 3189 DCLP (PN)

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