Artefact ID | 725 |
TM ID | TM 61704 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
Material | Papyrus |
Writing medium | Codex |
Text content | Literary |
Language | Greek |
Description | Gregory-Aland P8; 𝔓8; NT8; Gregory 1909: 1086-1090 A bifolio from a codex containing Luke, Acts of the Apostles 4-6 passim. The papyrus fragment measures 19 x 24.2 cm, and preserves 4 columns of text containing 29, 28, 28 and 25 lines of text respectively. The codex is estimated to have measured approx. 25 x 15 cm originally. |
Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Nomina sacra |
Date from | 300 |
Date to | 350 |
Dating criteria | Palaeography. Placed in the first half of the 4th c. by the palaeographers W. Clarysse and P. Orsini; see Clarysse/Orsini 2012: 469. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | Provenance is unknown. The fragment was gifted by Émile Charles Adalbert Brugsch in 1897. |
Accession number | Previously in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 8683. The fragment is now lost. |