Artefact ID | 255 |
TM ID | TM 117814 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 28 (al-Bahnasā) | Class | Textual |
Material | Papyrus |
Writing medium | Codex |
Text content | Literary |
Language | Greek |
Description | P.Oxy. LXXIII 4934 containing the First Epistle of Peter; Gregory-Aland P125; Gregory-Aland 𝔓125 The fragment preserves 44 fragmentary lines from a codex containing the First Epistle of Peter, 1:23-2:5, 7-12. The handwriting is medium size, slightly right-sloping, largely bilinear; traits of the Severe Style comparable to the Christian letters P.Herm. 4, P.Herm. 5 and to P.Oxy. VII 1008 (see Blumell/Wayment 2015: 163). If the date is correct, this could be the earliest evidence of the epistles of Peter in Oxyrhynchus; see ed. pr. |
Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Nomina sacra |
Date from | 275 |
Date to | 325 |
Dating criteria | Palaeography. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | The fragment was found in al-Bahnasā (Oxyrhynchos) during the excavations of Bernard Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt. |
Accession number | Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms 102/96(c). |