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Artefact ID	1420
TM ID	TM 61598
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	23 (al-Šayḫ ʿIbāda)
Class	Textual
Material	Wood
Writing medium	Codex, Tablet
Text content	Subliterary
Language	Greek
Description	Cribiore no. 397: School book with copy of Ps. 92. Wooden wax tablets originally part of a school book (H. 19 x L. 7.5 cm) preserving the copy of LXX Ps. 92. on badly ruled tablets with unevenly spaced lines. The verses are transcribed continuously and divide by two oblique lines. Use of nomina sacra abbreviated with supralinear strokes. The hand is described by Cribiore as "Alphabetic," with contrast between narrow and wide letters. Epsilon, mu, are almost always ligatured. Some letters are drawn with a certain fluency.
Selection criteria	Nomina sacra, Biblical quote or paraphrase
Date from	300
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography. Dated to 4th c. in ed. pr. The hand is compared with Suppl.Mag. II 52 dated 4th in ed. pr. (now reassigned to 1st c.).
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Probably excavations Gayet 1902 (the inv. "MND" indicates a gift from the Musée Guimet in 1948-1949 of objects from Gayet's excavations in Šayḫ ʿIbāda, see Boyaval 1975: 146).
Accession number	Paris, Louvre, Département des Antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines, MND 552.c.3 + MND 552 d-e-f.

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