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Artefact ID	27
TM ID	TM 108536
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	24 (Dišnā)
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Codex
Text content	Literary
Language	Coptic
Archive/Dossier	Archive
Description	P.Bodm. XVIII [P. Bodmer 18] Well-preserved papyrus codex containing a portion of Deuteronomy (Dtn 1–10:7) in Coptic (Sahidic), 48 extant folia.
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Biblical), Coptic language
Date from	375
Date to	400
Dating criteria	Palaeography (Kasser 1962: 12)
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unclear provenance; reportedly found at Ǧabal Abū Mannāʿ near Dishna (Upper Egypt) in 1952 (part of the “Dishna Papers” alongside several other Bodmer Papyri), possibly the location of a Pachomian monastery, see Robinson 2011, Lundhaug 2018.
Accession number	Geneva, Fondation Bodmer18

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Kasser, Rudolphe. 1962. Papyrus Bodmer XVIII. Deutéronome I–X, 7 en sahidique. Cologny & Geneva: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana.

Additional bibliography

• Feder, Frank. 2007. "Die koptische Übersetzung des Alten und Neuen Testaments im 4. Jahrhundert." Hallesche Beiträge zur Orientwissenschaft 44: 48 [65–93].

• Feder, Frank. 2020. "Die ältesten Textzeugen der koptischen Septuaginta-Übersetzung." In Die Septuaginta — Themen, Manuskripte, Wirkungen. 7. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 19.–22. Juli 2018, edited by Eberhard Bons, Michaela Geiger, Frank Ueberschaer, Marcus Sigismund and Martin Meiser, 649-650 [643-660]. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

• Fournet, Jean-Luc. 2015. "Anatomie d'une bibliothèque de l'Antiquité tardive: l'inventaire, le faciès et la provenance de la 'Bibliothèque Bodmer'." Adamantius 21: 8–40.

• Lundhaug, Hugo. 2018. “The Dishna Papers and the Nag Hammadi Codices: The Remains of a Single Monastic Library?” In The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt, edited by Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 329-386.

• Orsini, Pasquale. 2008. "La maiuscola biblica coptica." Segno e testo 6: 121–50 [esp. 130–31].

• Robinson, James M. 2011. The Story of the Bodmer Papyri: From the First Monastery's Library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books.

• Schüssler, Karlheinz. 1995. Das sahidische Alte und Neue Testament sa 1–20, Biblia Coptica: Die koptischen Bibeltexte I/1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 83 [sa 14].

Authors

Mary Jane Cuyler, Victor Ghica, Matthias Müller, 2020, 2021

Suggested citation

Mary Jane Cuyler, Victor Ghica, Matthias Müller, 2020, 2021, "Artefact ID 27", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/27

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TM 108536 BodmerLab PAThs CLM ID 36 CoptOT (LXX) Ms Sa 2001 TM Archive 519 – Dishna papers

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