4care-artefacts

Artefact ID	1549
TM ID	TM 64321
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Codex
Text content	Subliterary
Language	Latin
Description	P.Ryl. III 427, van Haelst 1211: Liturgical codex fragment The strongly damaged final leaf (15.6 x 18.7 cm) of a square papyrus codex (originally ca. 18 x 18.7 cm), this liturgical text presents no obvious citation of the bible. It covers 32 lines on the recto, 17 lines on the verso, and includes a benediction for new fruits, a prayer for the givers and recipients of the fruits, and a prayer for the sick as well as the dead. There are indications that it is a translation of a Greek original – puer instead of filius for παῖς, the spelling of euaggelium, pater nostri for presumably πατὲρ ἡμῶν in lines 7 and 22, a formulation not attested elsewhere. Dies faboris [favoris] in line 11 could be interpreted as Christian Sunday.
Selection criteria	Subliterary genre (Liturgical), Christian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from	275
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; the ed.pr. compared the hand to P.Oxy. 4 668, which contains P.Oxy. 4 657 on the verso (3rd/4th c.).
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown; acquired by the John Rylands Library in 1917.
Accession number	Manchester, John Rylands Library Gr. 472

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