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Artefact ID1591
TM IDTM 59982
Findspot (DEChriM ID)30   (al-Ašmūnayn)
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentLiterary
LanguageGreek
Description

P. Iand. 1 4: Pastor Hermae, Mandata 11-12 
The top corner vertical fragment (11.5 x 6.5 cm) of a single-column codex page, which originally measured 18 x 22 cm, ~17 x 13 cm text block with 22 lines. 13 lines remain visible on the recto, 12 lines on the verso, with between 2 and 8 letters. The recto contains Mandata 12:1, 2–3, the verso Mandata 11:19-21. Nomina sacra: ανους, κε

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Non-canonical), Nomina sacra
Date from200
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography (?); opinions on the dating have diverged, from initially the 4th c. (see ed.pr. and Gronewald 1980) and 3rd/4th c. (Lenaerts 1979 in the re-edition) to as early as the 2nd c. (Parsons in Carlini 1992).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Acquired by the German Papyruskartell from Mohammed Abdallah (based in al-Ašmūnayn) on 10.06.1907. The Papyri Iandanae (P.Iand.), private papyrus collection of philologist Karl Kalbfleisch, member of the Papyruskartell, were assembled in the years 1905–1913 and 1926–1927, and gifted to the Giessen university library by testament in 1953.

Accession number

Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek P. Iand. 45

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference edition
• Lenaerts, Jean. 1979. “Un papyrus du Pasteur d'Hermas: P. Iand. I,4.” Chronique d’Egypte (ChrEg) 54: 356-358.

Editio princeps
• Schaefer, Ernst. 1912. Papyri Iandanae. Fasciculus Primus. Voluminum codicumque fragmenta graeca cum amuleto Christiano. Leipzig: Teubner. 12-13, No. 4. Tabula III.

Additional bibliography
• Aland, Kurt. 1995. Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri: 2. Kirchenväter – Papyri. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. 282-284, KV 36.
• Bagnall, Roger S. 2009. Early Christian Books in Egypt. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press. 42-45. Figure 2.7.
• Carlini, Antonio. 1992. “Testimone e Testo: Il Problema della Datazione di PIand I 4 del Pastore di Erma.” Studi Classici e Orientali 42: 17-30.

• Choat, Malcolm and Rachel Yuen-Collingridge. 2010. “The Egyptian Hermas: The Shepherd in Egypt Before Constantine.” In Early Christian Manuscripts. Examples of Applied Method and Approach, edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. Texts and Editions for New Testament Study (TENT) 5. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 191-212: 206, passim.
• Crisci, Edoardo. 2005. “Note sulla più antica produzione di libri cristiani nell’oriente greco” Segno e testo 3. 93-145: 121. Tavola 15a.
• Gronewald Michael, 1980. “Ein verkannter Hermas-Papyrus (P. Iand. I 4 = Hermae Pastor, Mand. XI 19-21; XII 1, 2-3).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) 40: 53-54.
• Wayment, Thomas A. 2013. The Text of the New Testament Apocrypha (100-400 CE). London: Bloomsbury. 106-107, 315-316.
• Treu, Kurt. 1982. “Christliche Papyri VIII.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung (AfP) 28. 91-98: 93-94, Patres No. 659a.

Authors
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023
Suggested citation
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1591", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1591
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