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Artefact ID784
TM IDTM 108135
Findspot (DEChriM ID)28   (al-Bahnasā)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumUncertain
Text contentLiterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

Indentified hagiographic fragment mentioning the persecution under Septimius Severus in Coptic (M), single column, irregular and inexperienced hand, irregular orthography (see Schenke 1991: 87 for an attempt to create a normalized Mesokemic text), probably an excerpt as a practise text (Clackson 2007: 336)

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Hagiographic), Coptic language
Date from301
Date to500
Dating criteria-
Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms 4 1B 74/K(a)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Alcock, Anthony. 1982. "Persecution under Septimius Severus." Enchoria 11: 1-5 & Taf. 1-2.

Additional bibliography

• Schenke, Hans-Martin. 2012 [1991]. "Bemerkungen zum P. Hamb. Bil 1 und zum altfayumischen Dialekt der koptischen Sprache." In Der Same Seths. Hans-Martin Schenkes Kleine Schriften zu Gnosis, Koptologie und Neuem Testament, edited by Gesine Schenke Robinson, Gesa Schenke and Uwe-Karsten Plisch, 744-771. Leiden & Boston: Brill. [Original edition, Enchoria 18 (1991), 69-83], 763-765 [Normalizied M text and German translation].

• Blumell, Lincoln H., and Thomas A. Wayment. 2015. Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources. Waco/TX: Baylor University Press, 357-359 #100.

• Clackson, Sarah. 2007. "Coptic Oxyrhynchus." In Oxyrhynchus. A City and Its Texts, edited by Allan K. Bowman, Revel A. Coles, Nikolaos Gonis, Dirk Obbink and Peter J. Parsons, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 93, 332–41. London: Egypt Exploration Society for The Arts & Humanties Research Council, 335-336

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 784", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/784
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