| Artefact ID | 838 |
| TM ID | TM 62001 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Beatty IV 4; P.ChesterBeatty IV 4; Aland AT5 Papyrus fragments from a codex containing Genesis 9 -15 and 17-44. The fragments comprise 51 consecutive folios with two columns per page, each column containing up to 38 lines of text. Pagination is preserved irregularly, reaching as far as page 82. The codex is estimated to have consisted of 66 folios originally and to have measured 27.5 x 17.5 cm, and contains Genesis 9.1-44.22. The artefact is one of two Chester Beatty-codices of the Book of Genesis, the other being P.Beatty IV 5 (second half of the 3rd c.; provenance N/A), which together cover the entire Book of Genesis excluding the first eight and last four chapters. These codices appear to have been copied from the same predecessor. The cursive marginalia the top margin of folio 24 (verso) is dated to the first half of the 4th c., providing a terminus ante quem for the codex. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical) |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 350 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. The ed. pr. placed the codex in the second half of the 3rd c. The codex is also dated slightly before codex Vaticanus (ca. 360 AD); see Cavallo 1967: 50. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | The provenance is uncertain: It was acquired by sir Chester Beatty in the early 1930s, and Aphroditopolis (Atfih, by Schmidt), Upper Egypt or Panopolis (by Sanders) and the Arsinoites (Fayûm, by Kilpatrick) are mentioned as a possible provenance; see the overview of Van Haelst 1976: 30. |
| Accession number | Dublin, Chester Beatty Library P.Bibl. 4 [961]. |
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