| Artefact ID | 845 |
| TM ID | TM 61702 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 28 (al-Bahnasā) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | PSI X 1165; Gregory-Aland P48; 𝔓48; NT48 Papyrus fragment from a codex containing Luke, Acts of the Apostles (Acta Apostolorum) 23:11-29. The fragment measures 13.4 x 11.4 cm (16 x 25 cm is given in Blumell/Wayment 2012: 103), and preserves 13 (recto) and 20 (verso) lines of text arranged in one column per page. The verso (Acts 23.11–17) precedes the recto (23.25–29). The original size is estimated to have been 25 x 16 (see VanHaelst 1976: 175) or 36 x 29 cm (see Blumell/Wayment 2012: 103) The hand is described as a very small sloping, pointed majuscule. The text has affinities to the Western tradition and contains several unique reading, including an ἄν for οὗ in l.5 verso. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Nomina sacra |
| Date from | 325 |
| Date to | 375 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. Dated by the ed. pr. to the 3rd c. Another date centred in the mid-4th c. was suggested by the palaeographers W. Clarysse and P. Orsini; see Clarysse / Orsini 2012: 463 and 470. For a date in the end of the 3rd/beginning of the 4th, see Turner 1977: 148. For a placement in the 4/5th c., see Cavallo 1967: 119. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | The provenance is the Oxyrhynchus (al-Bahnasā) (excavations of E. Breccia). |
| Accession number | Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana inv. 19964 |
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