| Artefact ID | 479 |
| TM ID | TM 61951 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek, Coptic |
| Description | P.Beatty VI 7 + PSI XII 1273 + P.Merton I 2; Aland AT129. A large collection of papyrus fragments from a single quire codex. The text preserved is a Greek edition of OT Isaias 8-60 (passim), with annotations in Coptic that are the earliest testimony of this new writing. Coptic dialect used for these annotations, which is a form of ancient Fayyumic, seems to point to the Fayyum (Fournet 2019: 8). The fragments comprise 33 folios with 1 column of text per page, and with approx. 25-26 lines of text per column (highest page number: 54). |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Coptic language |
| Date from | 250 |
| Date to | 325 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. The ed. pr. dated the fragments to 3rd c. The most recent date, given by J.-L. Fournet, places the fragment in the mid 3rd/early 4th c. (Fournet 2016/2017: 236 and Fournet 2019: 7). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Unknown provenance. The Coptic dialect points to Fayyum, while TM 61951 mentions Aphroditopolis/Aṭfih (Schmidt), Upper Egypt/Panopolis (Sanders), Arsinoe (Kilpatrick) as possible provenances. |
| Accession number | Dublin, Chester Beatty Library P.Bibl. 7 + Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, inv. 19657. |
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