| Artefact ID | 355 |
| TM ID | TM 61619 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 28 (al-Bahnasā) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Oxy. LXV 4449; Gregory-Aland P100; 𝔓100 A larger sized papyrus fragment containing 26 lines of James Epistle 3:13-4:4 and 4:9-5:1. This fragment is the earliest witness to these verses; see ed. pr. The pagination (pp. 6-7) has been preserved in the upper margins. This advanced position of the text of James suggests that the codex originally contained the Catholic Epistles, and if the suggestion is accurate, this fragment posits the earliest witness to the Catholic epistulary codex; see Head 2000: 14. The hand is a reformed documentary hand that is sloping on the recto, yet upright and rounded on the verso, and contains a plentitude of errors (ακαστασια for ἀκαταστασία in 2.16 and νον for νόμον in 4:11) and iotacisms/etacisms (3:14, 15, 4:1, 9, and 11), several diaereses and one instance of a diastole (αλ’λα, l. 9 verso), as well as an correction in l. 5 (recto) performed by the original scribe; see Blumell / Wayment 2015: 134. The text overlaps slightly with P74 (P.Bodmer XVII, 6/7 c.) and preserves two singular readings; in 4:14 (where the text omits an article before ζωή) and in 4:3 (αἰτεῖτε for the αἰτεῖσθε of the MSS). |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Nomina sacra |
| Date from | 200 |
| Date to | 299 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. Dated to the 3/4 c. by the ed. pr. on the basis of comparison with P.Oxy. LXV 4445 (3rd c.). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | - |
| Accession number | Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms, P. Oxy. 4449. |
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