| Artefact ID | 26 |
| TM ID | TM 107761 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 24 (Dišnā) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Parchment |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Coptic |
| Archive/Dossier | Archive |
| Description | P.Bodm. VI [P. Bodmer 6] Parchment codex containing Proverbs 1:1-21:4 in Coptic (dialect P). "The remains of this codex consist of 64 parchment folios containing Proverbs 1:1-21:4 in Coptic (dialect P). P.Bodmer 6 has been of great interest to scholars because of its rare dialect, for which it is the only witness. This dialect is sometimes called proto-Theban, or proto-Sahidic. Wolf-Peter Funk identifies this dialect as the dialect belonging the farthest South of all known dialects. The codex shows signs of having been partially destroyed by a rodent. There is no precise data for the acquisition of P.Bodmer 6. Kasser states that when P.Bodmer 6 was presented to him, its leaves were found between the wooden boards of another codex, P.Bodmer 19 (Kasser, Papyrus Bodmer VI, viii)." (Bodmer Lab) |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Coptic language |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography (Kasser 1960: xiii) |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Unclear provenance; reportedly found at Ǧabal Abū Mannāʿ near Dishna (Upper Egypt) in 1952 (part of the “Dishna Papers” alongside several other Bodmer Papyri), possibly the location of a Pachomian monastery, see Robinson 2011, Lundhaug 2018. |
| Accession number | Geneva, Fondation Bodmer 6 |
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