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Artefact ID	1692
TM ID	TM 62045
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Parchment
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Literary
Language	Greek
Description	Small fragment containing Psalm 30:14-18 Broken off on both the left and right side, the vellum fragment shows the middle part of 8 lines, with only roughly a letter missing at the beginning of each. Line 8 reads αισχυνθείην instead of καταισχυνθείην or κατεσχύνθειην. Pattie notes variants in lines 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7, including the omission of και εκ των καταδιωκοντων με from verse 16, which would sit between lines 5 and 6. While Pattie considers that the omitted verse part may indicate the use as an amulet, Rahlfs disagrees due to the good orthography and the seemingly random demarcation of the selected verses, which point towards a complete sheet having contained a longer text passage. Furthermore, Rahlfs illustrates that the fragment follows the (originally Sahidic Coptic) Upper Egyptian text version of the Book of Psalms (preserved in Greek by only two documents on papyrus, P.Lips. Inv. 39 [Rahlfs Siglum 2013, 4th c.] and British Library P. 37 [Rahlfs Siglum U, 7th c.]). This would also explain the (according to Pattie 1988) “missing” part of verse 16, which would not have had its own line, but instead would have been part of the previous line 5. Nomina sacra with supralinear stroke: κε, θσ. Verso blank (?).
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Biblical), Nomina sacra
Date from	300
Date to	499
Dating criteria	Palaeography (?)
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown provenance. Content of a folder discovered among “five wooden boxes, two tin boxes and one cardboard box” of papyrus and parchment fragments “set aside” by Frederic G. Kenyon and Harold Idris Bell at the British Library. Present fragment briefly described by Thomas S. Pattie in a 1988 cursory overview of this collection, which was “purchased […] from dealers such as Nahman” [Maurice Nahman (1868–1948), antiquities dealer based in Cairo].
Accession number	London, British Library folder 507 e

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Pattie, Thomas S. 1988. “A Little-known Collection of Papyri in the British Library.” In Proceedings of the XVII International Congress of Papyrology. Athens 25-31 May 1986. Volume I, edited by Basil G. Mandilaras. Athens: Greek Papyrological Society. 147-150: 149-150, 0507e.

Additional bibliography
• Römer, Cornelia. 1997. “Christliche Texte (1989 – August 1996).“ Archiv für Papyrusforschung (AfP) 43. 107-145: 111, Altes Testament (AT) 13 [134a].
• 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. 216-217, Sigel 2139.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1692", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1692

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External links

TM 62045 / LDAB 3204 DCLP (PN)

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