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Artefact ID1025
TM IDTM 107828
Findspot (DEChriM ID)31   (Dayr al-Balāyza)
ClassTextual
MaterialParchment
Writing mediumCodex, Uncertain
Text contentLiterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

P.Bal. 19

Part of a folio from a Pauline epistles codex in Coptic (B) preserving Phil 3:19–4:9, later reused for a tax receipt (P.Bal. 146)

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Biblical), Coptic language
Date from301
Date to500
Dating criteria

Palaeography

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Copt. f. 7 (P)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Kahle, Paul Eric. 1950. "A Biblical Fragment of the IVth–Vth Century in Semi-Bohairic." Le Muséon 63: 147-157 & pl. I.

Reference edition

• Kahle, Paul Eric. 1954. Bala’izah. Coptic Texts from from Deir el-Bala’izah in Upper Egypt. Oxford: The Griffith Institute & Oxford University Press, 377-380 (P.Bal. 19) & 560-561 (P.Bal. 146).

• Kasser, Rodolphe. 1981. "Prolégomènes à un essai de classification systématique des dialectes et subdialectes coptes selon les critères de la phonetique III." Le Muséon 94: 93 [91–152] (Classification of dialect as subdialect B71 instead of Kahle's main dialect K).

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 1025", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1025
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