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Artefact ID	1573
TM ID	TM 62928
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Codex
Text content	Literary
Language	Greek
Description	P.Bodmer XXVII; P.Bodmer XLV; P.Bodmer, XLVI; P.Bodmer XLVII; P. Pisa Lit. 5; Rahlfs 861: Codex fragments containing Susanna, Daniel, moral exhortations and Thucydides These 10 sheets (18 x 15.5 cm) originally comprised of 6 folded double-sheets. With 3.2 cm upper margin, and 1.5 cm side margin, ~10.5 x 11.8 cm was used as writing space. The legibility of the texts is inhibited by a vertical tear and significant damage. The “codex” can be described as two distinct fascicles with consecutive texts, see illustration (Carlini/Citi 1981). P.Bodmer 45: Susanna 1:1-64 (Theodotion’s version) P.Bodmer 46: Daniel 1:1-20 (Theodotion’s version) P.Bodmer 47 (1 page): moral exhortations; alphabetical, one per line. Verso empty. P.Bodmer 27 = P. Pisa Lit. 5: Thucydides, book 6 1.1-2.6 The Susanna and Daniel parts were written by a single hand, probably originally intended for a larger codex, before the empty pages were reused by a different hand for the other two texts. Rahlfs 2004 points out remnants of numbering. Nomina sacra: θς, κς, πνα, ιηλ (also ιλ, ηλ)
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Biblical), Nomina sacra
Date from	200
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; Cavallo and Manfredi date Susanna and Daniel (P.Bodmer 45 & 46) to the 3rd c. CE; P.Bodmer 27 is dated to the 4th c.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unclear provenance; in the ed.pr., Carlini/Citi state that antiquities dealer Phocion J. Tano informed Rodolphe Kasser about Martin Bodmer’s 1956 purchase of codices in Cairo, allegedly from a village near Naǧʿ Ḥammādī. This seems to imply this codex may have been among those purchased.
Accession number	Geneva, Fondation Bodmer 27 + 45 (also PB T)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition
• Carlini, Antonio. 1978. Papiri Letterari Greci, edited by Antonio Carlini et al. Pisa: Giardini. 65-77, No. 5.

Editio princeps
• Carlini, Antonio. 1975. “Il papiro di Tucidide della Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (P. Bodmer XXVII).” Museum Helveticum (MusHelv) 32: 33-40.
• Carlini, Antonio and Annamaria Citi. 1981. “Susanna e la prima visione di Daniele in due papiri inediti della Bibliotheca Bodmeriana: P. Bodm. XLV e P. Bodm. XLVI.” Museum Helveticum (MusHelv) 38: 81-120.

Additional bibliography
• Bingen, Jean. 1978. “Papyrus littéraires et Documents. Antonio Carlini, Il papiro di Tucidide della Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (P. Bodmer XXVII).” Chronique d’Egypte (CdE) 53. 177-183: 177.
• Carlini, Antonio. 1974. “Nuovi ritrovamenti papirologici.” Atene e Roma 19 (NS): 87-88.
• Gagnebin, Bernard. 1972. “Une Source capitale pour le Recherche a Genève: la Fondation Martin Bodmer.” Genava. Nouvelle Série 20. 5-54: 12. [Mention of the Thucydides parts]
• Rahlfs, Alfred, and Detlef Fraenkel. 2004. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Vol. 1.1: Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 61, Sigel 861.
• Treu, Kurt. 1984. “Christliche Papyri X.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung (AfP) 30. 121-128: 122, Altes Testament No. 317a.
• Turner, Eric G. 1977. The Typology of the Early Codex. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 81, No. 4.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1573", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1573

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