| Artefact ID | 30 |
| TM ID | TM 108121 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 24 (Dišnā) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Coptic |
| Archive/Dossier | Archive |
| Description | P.Bodmer XLI; P.Bodmer 41 Seven leaves of a papyrus codex containing a portion of the Acts of Paul in Coptic (L56 dialect). The seven papyrus leaves that make up P.Bodmer 41 narrate the “Ephesus episode” known from other copies of the Acts of Paul. The pages of P.Bodmer 41 were numbered in the upper margin, but the numbers are only preserved on the leaf containing pages 13-14. One leaf (containing pages 5-6) seems not to have survived. The 6 letters unique to the Coptic language are spelled out at the end of the text in the hand of the original scribe. The leaves making up P.Bodmer 41 are said bought by Martin Bodmer from an antiquities dealer in Cairo around 1956 (Kasser and Luisier, “Le Papyrus Bodmer XLI,” 281). [Source: Bodmer Lab] |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Non-canonical), Coptic language |
| Date from | 350 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography, Kasser & Luisier (2004: 288 "seconde moitié du IVe siècle") |
| 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 Bodmer 41 |
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