| Artefact ID | 985 |
| TM ID | TM 61981 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Lond.Lit. 202; Rahlfs 953; Aland AT14 Papyrus fragment from a codex containing OT Genesis 46:28-32 and 47:3-5. The fragment measures 10 x 13.3 cm, and constitutes the lower part of a folio. The preserved lower margins measure 2.5 and 3.7 cm respectively. The verso preserves 10 lines of text written in one column; the recto preserves 9: the verso precedes the recto. The codex is estimated to originally have contained 16-17 lines of text per page. There is one interesting variant in l. 10 verso, not familiar to the collation done by the ed. pr. The text otherwise presents several agreements with later cursives of the Book of Genesis; see the ed. pr. The hand is described by the ed. pr. as an upright, compressed cursive similar to the cursive types under the reign of Diocletian. The scribe uses punctuation in the shape of a mid-point combined with an enlarged space. The text contains one diaeresis and apostrophe (in l. 31 verso), and no nomina sacra. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical) |
| Date from | 250 |
| Date to | 350 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. The ed. pr. places the fragment in ca. 300 AD (3rd to 4th c.). The fragment was placed in the first half of the 4th c. by the palaeographer Pasquale Orsini by letter. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | The provenance is unknown. The fragment was purchased as part of a lot comprising papyri 2556-2647 in a joint purchase arranged by Francis Willey Kelsey. The lot was acquired from Maurice Nahman, the antiquities dealer in Cairo, in November 1924. |
| Accession number | London, British Library Pap 2557. |
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