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Artefact ID926
TM IDTM 108053
Findspot (DEChriM ID)26   (Dayr al-Ḥammām)
ClassTextual
MaterialParchment
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentLiterary
LanguageCoptic
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 criteriaLiterary genre (Biblical), Coptic language
Date from301
Date to350
Dating criteria

Palaeography (Crum compares 1st hand of Pistis Sophia and the Berlin Akhmimic psalter)

Absolute/relative dateRelative 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

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Petrie, William Matthews. 1893. Coptic Papyri from the Fayyum, together with a papyrus in the Bodleian, edited with commentaries and indices by W.E. Crum. London: David Nutt, 2-5 #2.

• Till, Walter Curt. 1938. "Ein achmimisches Jakobusbrieffragment." Le Muséon 51: 69-71 (Vienna fragment).

Additional bibliography

• Schmitz, Franz-Jürgen. 2003. Das Verhältnis der koptischen zur griechischen Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments: Dokumentation und Auswertung der Gesamtmaterialien beider Traditionen zum Jakobusbrief und den beiden Petrusbriefen, Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 33. Berlin: De Gruyter, 45-46 (ach 2) et passim (in the text synopsis).

• Schüssler, Karlheinz. 1991. Die katholischen Briefe in der koptischen (sahidischen) Version, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 528 = Scriptores Coptici 45. Louvain: Peeters, XCVIII #63.

• Wessely, Carl. 1915. Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde XVI. Duodecim prophetarum minorum versionis Achmimicae Codex Rainerianus. Leipzig: Haessel. Tafel 6.

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 926", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/926
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