| Artefact ID | 53 |
| TM ID | TM 108117 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 23 (al-Šayḫ ʿIbāda) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Parchment |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek, Coptic |
| Description | Two palimpsest bifolia, part of a parchment codex. The scriptio inferior (TM 108117) preserves fragments of a still unedited anti-Manichaean treatise written in Lycopolitan Coptic in two narrow columns. The scriptio superior (TM 61688 / LDAB 2839) contains the following sections of texts in Greek: an overview of the lengths of the days and nights in the Egyptian months (f. α, p. 1), a dialogue between Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianz (f. α, pp. 2–4), and a fragment of the Apocalypse of John (f. β, pp. 1–4). The later texts are dated by P. Orsini to the mid 6th c. (Cavallo, Maehler 1987: 64; Orsini 2019: 148-149). |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Theological), Coptic language |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography and dialect. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Discovered during the Florentine excavations in Antinoopolis in 1937. |
| Accession number | Florence, Istituto Papirologico 'G. Vitelli' PSI Inv. 2462 |
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