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Artefact ID	1558
TM ID	TM 61655
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	23 (al-Šayḫ ʿIbāda)
Class	Textual
Material	Parchment
Writing medium	Codex
Text content	Literary
Language	Greek
Description	P.Ant. 1 12; Gregory-Aland 0232; van Haelst 555: Codex page fragment containing the Second Epistle of John (2 John 1-9) The fragment (7.3 x 8.8 cm) is the upper remnant of a codex page (originally ~9.9 x 8.8 cm), of which the top and side borders are intact. The recto (2 John 1–5) still contains 15 lines, the verso (2 John 6–9) 16 lines; a page originally contained 20 lines, so five and four lines are missing at the bottom of each page respectively. Letters at the beginning of lines as well as at the beginnings of sections are usually written enlarged. At the top center on each side, the fragment is faintly marked by a second, later hand as pages 164 (ρξδ) and 165 (ρξε). For the ed.pr., this pagination indicates that the Gospel of John, Revelation, and 1 John were included ahead of this section in the codex. Kruger 2012 disagrees, considering the codex to have been far too small to contain all these texts (in the ed.pr., Roberts had assumed 400 words per page rather than 400 letters), and proposes a composite codex of the book of Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles instead. The fragment’s content is most similar to Text A (Codex Alexandrinus). In line 12, the fragment reads ευρον instead of εὕρηκα; in line 19/20 it includes both instances of ινα; in line 28, it reads προάγων instead of προβαίνων. Nomina sacra with supralinear stroke: θυ, ιηυ χρυ, υυ, κυ. πατρός is abbreviated as παρς (lines 10 and 15), an abbreviation without precedent.
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Biblical), Nomina sacra
Date from	250
Date to	499
Dating criteria	Palaeography. Letter sizes vary, and there is irregular spelling (possibly due to dictation?). In the ed.pr., Roberts compares the fragment to P. Lond. Lit. 192, P. Oxy. 4 656 and the Chester Beatty Codex of Daniel and Esther (all dated to the 3rd c.). Van Haelst 1976 agrees with this dating, but Cavallo/Maehler 1987 places it in the first half or middle of the 5th c. Kruger 2012 dates it to the late 4th to the 5th c., comparing it to Gregory-Aland 𝔓35. He further states that most miniature codices date to the fourth century or later, as does the use of parchment rather than papyrus.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Excavations at al-Šayḫ ʿIbāda (Sheikh Abâda, ancient Antinoopolis), by John de Monins Johnson in Winter 1913/1914, funded by the Egypt Exploration Fund.
Accession number	Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Ant. 12

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Roberts, Colin Henderson. 1950. The Antinoopolis Papyri. Part I. London: Egypt Exploration Society. 24-26, No. 12. Plate I.

Additional bibliography
• Aland, Kurt. 1994. Kurzgefasste Liste der Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. Zweite, neubearbeitete und ergänzte Auflage. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. 38, Majuskeln 0232.
• Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland. 1981/1989. The Text of the New Testament. An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, transl. by Erroll F. Rhodes. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans. 104, 126, 160, 246. No. 0232.
• Barker, Don. 2009. “How Long and Old is the Codex of which P.Oxy. 1353 is a Leaf?” In Jewish and Christian Scripture as Artifact and Canon, edited by Craig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias. Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity 13 = Library of Second Temple Studies 70. London: T&T Clark. 192-202: 198.
• Cavallo, Guglielmo. 2005. Il Calamo e il Papiro: La Scrittura Greca Dall'Età Ellenistica ai Primi Secoli di Bisanzio. Papyrologica Florentina (Pap. Flor.) 36. Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli. 187.
• Cavallo, Guglielmo and Herwig Maehler. 1987. Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine period: A.D. 300-800. London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies. 20-23, No. 8c. Plate 8c.
• Comfort, Philip Wesley. 2019. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Papyri 75-139 and Uncials. Volume 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic. 263, 357. No. 0232.
• Kruger, Michael J. 2012. “The Date and Content of P. Antinoopolis 12 (0232).” New Testament Studies (NTS/New Test. Stud.) 58. 254-271.
• O’Connell, Elisabeth R. 2014. “John de Monins Johnson 1913/14 Egypt Exploration Fund expedition to Antinoupolis (Antinoë), with appendix of objects.” In Antinoupolis II. Scavi e Materiali, edited by Rosario Pintaudi. Firenze: Firenze University Press. 415-466: 440, Fig. 90-91.
• Orsini, Pasquale and Willy Clarysse. 2012. “Early New Testament Manuscripts and Their Dates. A Critique of Theological Palaeography.” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses (Eph. Theol. Lov.) 88(4). 443-474: 472, No. 0232.
• van Haelst, Joseph. 1976. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 195, No. 555.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1558", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1558

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External links

TM 61655 / LDAB 2805 DCLP (PN) NT.VMR PINAX – P.Ant. (The Imaging Papyri Project) Wikipedia — Uncial 0232

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