Artefact ID | 93 |
TM ID | TM 107965 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
Material | Papyrus |
Writing medium | Codex |
Text content | Literary |
Language | Coptic |
Description | Paths ID 1178 Papyrus fragments from a Codex containing the Shepherd of Hermas (Similitudo 09) written in Coptic (Achmimic dialect). According to the reconstruction of the contents made by Lefort 1952, p. iii, the codex the Shepherd was copied from the 5th Vision (used as an introduction to the work), letting apart the first 4 Visions, as it is also the case in the Greek Shepherd P.Mich. inv. 917 (LDAB 1097). |
Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Literary genre (Non-canonical), Coptic language |
Date from | 300 |
Date to | 499 |
Dating criteria | Palaeography and dialect. Lefort 1949 dates to the 4th-5th centuries on palaeographical grounds. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | |
Accession number | Louvain-la-Neuve, Archives, Fonds Lefort, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 + Leuven, KU Leuven Lefort, 3a, 3b, 3c [Codex of the Shepherd] |