| Artefact ID | 520 |
| TM ID | TM 64348 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Literary, Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | AfP 2 (1903): 217-224, papyrus no. IV Papyrus fragments containing a Christian wisdom text. These three fragments survive from a papyrus roll, and measure 12 x 5.5 cm (fragment A); 10.5 x 6.5 cm (fragment B); and 12 x 8 cm (fragment C). The recto preserves a documentary text from On the verso, fragment A contains the beginning of 15 lines of text, while the two other fragments hold the ends of 33 lines and belong together as the top and bottom of the sheet. The text is structured in sections in which the lines have irregular length, and certain lines are left blank to indicate the deparate paragraphs/sections. The ed. pr. notes that the text is of a type resembling Christian ecclesiastical Sententiae, and suggests that the different paragraphs were introduced by the genitive of the name of the apostle to which the paraenetic saying belongs. The hand is descriped as clumsy and irregular in shape, and there are some instances of marked breathing and accentuation (see l. 4 on fragment C). The text contains nomina sacra. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Non-canonical), Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Nomina sacra |
| Date from | 250 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. The ed. pr. places the fragments in the end of the 3rd c. up to the 4th c. with the support of Wilcken, due to a palaeographical assesment of i.a. the ksi on the recto of fragment B; see ed. pr. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | The provenance is Panopolis (Akhmim), where Dr. H. Thiersch acquired the fragments; see ed. pr. |
| Accession number | Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale P. gr. 1017 |
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