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Artefact ID1467
TM IDTM 64053
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Bodmer 51: Scribal exercise in syllabic division 
The recto of the fragment (12.7 x 20 cm, cut to size for the binding of P. Bodmer 23, ca. 13.5 x 21 cm) contains a two-column list of bisyllabic names grouped by first letter of the word (ι, κ, λ, μ are partially preserved), including Λουκας and Μαρκος. The columns are divided by double vertical lines. While the text is an exercise, it is considered to be the hand of a teacher, possibly a model for the students. Worp 2006 correlates the fragment with the lexicography of Hesychius. The verso (TM 699689), reused upside down to the recto, contains an unidentified literary οr paraliterary text (now considered a medical or ethnographic treatise).

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography; the Coptic codex to which the fragment was attached as binding is dated to the 2nd half of the 4th c.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Together with P.Bodmer 52, P.Bodmer 53 (blank), P.Bodmer 54, P.Bodmer 55 and P.Bodmer 56, the fragment was used for the front binding of P.Bodmer 23 (Coptic codex). The fragments were unglued and removed from the binding by a team at the British Museum between 1972 and 1977, in an effort to date and locate the origin of the Bodmer codices.

Accession number

Geneva, Fondation Bodmer 51 Ro

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Di Bitonto Kasser, Anna. 1998. “P. Bodmer LI recto: esercizio di divisione sillabica.” Museum Helveticum 55: 112-118.

Additional bibliography
• Kasser, Rodolphe. 1965. Papyrus Bodmer XXIII. Ésaïe XLVII, 1-LXVI 24, en sahidique. Cologny-Genève: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana. 14.
• Worp, Klaas A. 2006. “’P.Genova’” II 52: A Link with Hesychius?” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik (ZPE) 156. 185–193: 188-189.

Authors
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022
Suggested citation
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022, "Artefact ID 1467", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1467
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