Artefact ID | 75 |
TM ID | TM 107858 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 31 (Dayr al-Balāyza) | Class | Textual |
Material | Parchment |
Writing medium | Codex |
Text content | Literary |
Language | Coptic |
Description | P.Bal. I 52: Parchment fragment from a Coptic codex containing a Gnostic treatise in the Sahidic dialect. |
Selection criteria | Literary genre (Theological), Coptic language |
Date from | 300 |
Date to | 399 |
Dating criteria | NB: According to Orsini in TM, it should be dated to the first quarter of the 5th cent. CE. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | All of the material published by Kahle in 1954 was excavated in early 1907 at the monastery of Saint Apollo under the direction of Flinders Petrie (Kahle 1954, 2-3). There were no records indicating precise find-spots of the manuscripts, Crum states that they were scattered. |
Accession number | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Copt. d. 54 (P) |