Artefact ID | 1411 |
TM ID | TM 113512 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 28 (al-Bahnasā) | Class | Textual |
Material | Papyrus |
Writing medium | Sheet/roll, Uncertain |
Text content | Literary |
Language | Greek, Syriac |
Description | Manichean fragments. Earliest Syriac documents published so far from Oxyrhynchos; written in the Palmyrene script, a script similar to Estrangelo. In ed. pr., D.S. Margoliouth was inclined to see all of these fragments (with Ms. Syr. d. 14) as belonging to a Manichean community. |
Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts |
Date from | 275 |
Date to | 325 |
Dating criteria | Palaeography |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | Oxyrhynchos, 1905 EEF excavations |
Accession number | Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Syr. d. 13 (P) |