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Artefact ID1458
TM IDTM 69004
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialParchment
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentLiterary
LanguageGreek
Description

Rahlfs 2182: Fragment containing Book of Job 7,9b–10 and 7,14 
Horizontal strip (1,5 x 6,8 cm) of a codex page, made of fine, light brown goat parchment and written in light brown iron gall ink. The full codex page would contain 19 lines (with a maximum of 22 letters), spanning 15 x 11 cm of text. With visibly wide borders, a page would be 21 x 16 cm in size. The letters are 6mm in height. The text of Job alone would have filled a ca. 225-page codex. Due to the rarity of Job fragments, this may have been the first found on parchment.

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Biblical)
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography; the ed.pr. roughly places it in the 6th c., the online collection entry of the Austrian National Library dates it to the 4th c.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Unknown provenance.

Accession number

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 35767

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Treu, Kurt. 1974. “Vier Wiener Septuagintafragmente.” Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JOB). 23. Band, edited by Herbert Hunger. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 1-9: 6-7, No. 3.

Additional bibliography
• 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. 418, Sigel 855.
• Treu, Kurt. 1978. “Christliche Papyri VI.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung (AfP) 26. 149-159: 153, Altes Testament No. 273a.

Authors
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022
Suggested citation
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022, "Artefact ID 1458", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1458
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