| Artefact ID | 38 |
| TM ID | TM 749338 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Coptic |
| Description | P.Monts.Roca inv. 14 The Montserrat roll is a papyrus roll containing a Sahidic Coptic translation of a large part of the Letter to Dracontius of Athanasius (festal letter). It is broken at the beginning but still preserves 6 columns (5 on recto, along the fibres; 1 on verso across the fibres). It is the earliest known evidence for this letter, pre-dating the earliest surviving Greek codex by six centuries (Torallas Tovar 2018, 22). |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Theological), Mention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Mention of Christian individuals/communities, Coptic language |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | "The paleography of [P. Monts. Roca inv. 14] places it at least in the same graphic environment as the codices from the southern area in the fourth century, with the closest example found in Bodmer XXI." (Torallas Tovar 2018, 24). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Precise origins unknown; some scholars believe it could have originally formed a part of the Bodmer library (Torallas Tovar 2018, 26). |
| Accession number | Montserrat, Abadia 14 [P.Monts.Roca inv. 14] |
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