| Artefact ID | 39 |
| TM ID | TM 107982 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Coptic |
| Description | P.Lond.Copt. II 189 Fragment from the innermost end of a papyrus roll bearing a Coptic translation of the Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (10-12). The text is the unique witness of a variety of Fayyumic dialect (subdialect V5, according to Rodolphe Kasserʼs classification; Kasser 1990, 147). The papyrus might originate from the Oxyrynchite nome, based on the dialect, but provenance is not certain. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Non-canonical), Coptic language |
| Date from | 301 |
| Date to | 450 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography (Victor Ghica, Alin Suciu): early forms of f, x, and s, comparable to those featured in 4th c. manuscripts such as the codices from Naǧʿ Ḥammādī, Budgeʼs Deuteronomy Codex (British Library Or. 7594 / P.Lond.Copt. II 1) or the Akhmimic papyrus codices BnF 135A, 135B, 135C, and 135E+Berlin P. 1862. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | - |
| Accession number | London, British Library, Or. 9271 |
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