| Artefact ID | 1412 |
| TM ID | TM 113511 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 28 (al-Bahnasā) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll, Uncertain |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | 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. 13) as belonging to a Manichean community. Among these fragments, frag. 1 is quoting 2 Corinthians 5:21 and shows a clear dependence on the Peshitta rather than the Greek New Testament; frag. 2 may belong to one of the writings of Mani or his successor, Sisinnius, who admonished the faithful that they would suffer on account of their special revelation; it bears some resemblance to Manichean writings in Parthia known as the "Crucifixion hymns"; frag. 3 appears to be a Manichean homily (Blumell and Wayment 2015: 338). |
| Selection criteria | Subliterary genre (Liturgical), Biblical quote or paraphrase |
| 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. 14 (P) |
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