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Artefact ID62
TM IDTM 107791
Findspot (DEChriM ID)25   (Aḫmīm)
ClassTextual
MaterialParchment
Writing mediumCodex, Uncertain
Text contentLiterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

P.Lond.Copt. I 935

Small fragment from a codex (?) with the Historical books preserving 1 Sam (1 Kgs) 12:4-5 and 12:10-11 in Coptic (S), originally written in 2 columns (just one preserved on each side, see Perttilä 2017: 237)

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Biblical), Coptic language
Date from301
Date to400
Dating criteria

Palaeography; Drescher even suggested a date range 301-500

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Said to be from the White Monastery, probably surmised from the fact that it was bought by Grenfell at Akhmim

Accession number

London, British Library, Or. 4916(3)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition
• Perttilä, Elina. 2017. Sahidic 1 Samuel – A Daughter Version of the Septuagint 1 Reigns, De Septuaginta Investigationes 8. Göttingen & Bristol/CT: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 237-238, see also 20 #SaI .

Editio Princeps

• Schleifer, Johannes. 1912. "Bruchstücke der sahidischen Bibelübersetzung." Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 170: 14-51 [1-31].

Additional Bibliography

• Butts, Aaron Michael. 2005. "P.Duke.inv. 797 (U) – I Kingdoms 14:24–50 in Sahidic." Le Muséon 118: 7 [7–19].

• Crum, Walter Ewing. 1905. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 392 #935 (descr.).

• Drescher, James. 1970. The Coptic (Sahidic) Version of Kingdoms I, II (Samuel I, II), Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 313 = Scriptores Coptici 35. Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, XI.

• Orsini, Pasquale. 2019. Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books, Studies in Manuscript Culture 15. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 129.

• Schüssler, Karlheinz (†). 2015. Das sahidische Alte und Neue Testament sa 185–260, bearbeitet von Frank Feder und Hans Förster, Biblia Coptica: Die koptischen Bibeltexte II/2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 57 [Sa 208]. Taf. 6.

Authors
Mary Jane Cuyler, Matthias Müller, 2020–21, 2021
Suggested citation
Mary Jane Cuyler, Matthias Müller, 2020–21, 2021, "Artefact ID 62", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/62
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