| Artefact ID | 1235 |
| TM ID | TM 64137 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Ceramic |
| Writing medium | Ostracon |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Worp 53; P.L.Bat. XVII 6, no. II: School exercise Triangular ostrakon of red clay, broken on the sides and bottom, but the first preserved line may have been the first line of the text. The sherd contains a school exercise, a list of disyllabic words in three columns, distinguished by vertical lines, respectively words in κ, λ, and μ – probably copied (or adapted) from a model. Although the second column starts with the name Luke, the words chosen occur both in the Old and New Testament and in Christian texts in general. Hand of a beginner, showing letters of various sizes, some corrections and insertions, an uncertain alignment, and a few characters retraced. Same kind of text in P.Bagnall 10. |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Biblical quote or paraphrase |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography: the hand does not present distinctive characteristics but a date to the 4th c. is suggested in ed.pr., also in comparison with another list assigned to that period: O.Petr.Mus. 54, dated 4th c. in Cribiore 1996: no. 112. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Purchased in Luxor, January 1935. |
| Accession number | New York, Columbia University O.Col. inv. 3628. Formerly in Cambridge (MA), Private collection N. Lewis. |
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