Artefact ID | 926 |
TM ID | TM 108053 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 26 (Dayr al-Ḥammām) | Class | Textual |
Material | Parchment |
Writing medium | Codex |
Text content | Literary |
Language | Coptic |
Description | P.Fay.Copt. 2 (P.Lond.Copt. I 492) + Vienna ÖNB K8650 Fragments of a Catholic Epistles codex in Coptic (A), presumably from Petrie's excavations at the Dayr al-Hammām, preserving Jam 4:12–13 (BL) & 5:17–18 & 20 (ÖNB), Jude 17–20 and an undentified part on a third (tiny) fragment (3 lines with max. 4 letters) |
Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Coptic language |
Date from | 301 |
Date to | 350 |
Dating criteria | Palaeography (Crum compares 1st hand of Pistis Sophia and the Berlin Akhmimic psalter) |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | Said to come from rubbish heaps around the present dayr |
Accession number | London, British Library Or 5299 (1) + Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 8650 |