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Artefact ID	1543
TM ID	TM 61988
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Codex
Text content	Literary
Language	Greek
Description	P.Monts.Roca inv. no. 5, P.Monts.Roca. IV 45, Aland 142, van Haelst 309, Rahlfs 984, Turner OT 204: Jeremiah 18:15–16, 18:19–20 The fragment comprises of the bottom 8 lines of a single-column codex page (9.7 x 7.3 cm), originally measuring ca. 24 x 16 cm and containing 22 lines per page. Both the left and right sides of the papyrus have broken off. The recto features Jeremiah 18:15–16, the verso 18:19–20. A variant on line 3 of the verso reads κακα αντι αγαθων instead of ἀντὶ ἀγατῶν κακά (Jeremiah 18:20).
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Biblical)
Date from	300
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; the ed.pr. points out a similarity to Papyrus Chester Beatty IV (4th c.). Orsini 2005 points to P.Lond. Lit. 33 as another graphically similar papyrus.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown; acquired in Egypt in the 1950s, part of the private collection Papyri Barcinonenses, assembled by papyrologist Ramon Roca Puig via his Fundación San Lucas Evangelista (founded 1952). Gifted to the Abbey of Montserrat in 1997.
Accession number	Montserrat, Abadia Roca 5

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition
• Spottorno, María Victoria. 2014. Greek Papyri from Montserrat (P.Monts.Roca. IV), edited by Sofía Torallas Tovar and Klaas A. Worp. Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat. 94-96, No. 45.

Editio princeps
• Roca-Puig, Ramon. 1965. “Papyro griego de Jeremías. P.Barc. inv. n° 5, Jer 18, 15-16, 19-20.” Aegyptus 45: 70-73.

Additional bibliography
• Aland, Kurt. 1976. Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri: 1. Biblische Papyri: Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. 202, Altes Testament (AT) 142.
• Orsini, Pasquale. 2005. Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento. Rome: Edizioni dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino: 45.
• 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. 248, Sigel 984.
• Tragan, Pius Ramon. 2019. ”Ramon Roca Puig (1906-2001) and the Acquisition of the Montserrat Papyri.” In Papyrus Networks. Montserrat and 20th cent. collectors. Exhibit on occasion of the IX Jornadas de papirología. Abadía de Montserrat, July 8-10th 2019: 1-5.
• Treu, Kurt. 1969. “Christliche Papyri 1940-1967.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung (AfP) 19. 169-206: 180.
• Turner, Eric G. 1977. The Typology of the Early Codex. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 183, OT 204.
• van Haelst, Joseph. 1976. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 114, No. 309.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1543", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1543

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External links

TM 61988 / LDAB 3147 DCLP (PN)

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