| Artefact ID | 971 |
| TM ID | TM 61858 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Yale I 2 + P.Yale II 86; Gregory-Aland P49; 𝔓49; NT49 Folio from a papyrus codex containing Paul, Ephesians 4:16-29 and 4:31-5:12. This folio possibly belongs to the same codex as PSI XIV 1373 (1 Thess. from mid-3/mid-4th c.; Provenance N/A). The artefact consists of two fragments belonging to the Beinecke Library, P. CtYBR 415 (P.Yale I 2) and P. CtYBR 531 (P.Yale II 86). The smaller fragment of P.Yale II 86 (2.1 x 5 cm) belongs to the top of the larger fragment of P.Yale I 2. The fragment measures 20.4 x 14.6 cm, and preserves 26 lines of text on the recto and 24 lines on the verso written in one column. The original format is estimated to have been 27 x 17 cm (or 18 x 25 cm; Comfort/Barrett 1999; 358) with approx. 29/30 lines of text per page. There is no accentuations or lectional indicators other than the diaeresis, and punctuation appears in the shape of a double point. The text contains several nomina sacra. The hand is described professional with similarities to the Severe style, slightly right-leaning and influenced by the cursive, yet written without the decor of calligraphy; see the ref.ed. (P.Yale I 2). V. Bartoletti was the first to notice the possible connection between P.Yale I 2- II 86 and PSI XIV 1373; see Vittorio Bartoletti 1957: 5-7. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Nomina sacra |
| Date from | 250 |
| Date to | 350 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. The ed. pr. places the fragment in the early 3rd c. The palaeographers W. Clarysse and P. Orsini place the fragment in the period of the mid 3rd c. to the mid-4th c.; see Clarysse / Orsini 2012: 470. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | The provenance is unknown. The fragment (inv. 415) was acquired from the antiquities dealer Maurice Nahman in Cairo, February of 1931. |
| Accession number | New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library P. CtYBR 415 + P. CtYBR 531. |
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