| Artefact ID | 562 |
| TM ID | TM 67939 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Parchment |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | MPER N.S. XXIX 27 + 28; Gregory-Aland 0215; Gregory-Aland 059 Parchment fragments containing the second gospel of Mark 15:20-38. Two fragments from a miniature codex, presenting one of the earliest witnesses to this section of Mark; see Jongkind 2014. Fragment A measures 5,4 x 5 cm (G 36112) and preserves the bottom margin of the folio; Fragment B measures 9,4 x 9,7 cm (G 39779), and preserves parts of the top- and side margins. Both fragments present the text on the hair-side as preceding the flesh-side, and the context suggests that the fragments belong to coinciding folios. Curiously, the codex appears to be missing the verse 15:28, a lacuna which is adttested in other witnesses to the Gospel of Mark. A small fragment (beyond the folding-line) conjoined to G 39779 offers some difficulties, as the letters are seemingly written in a different hand and in different ink, and perhaps preserving a separate text beyond the Gospel of Mark (Jungkind suggests that the text-addition preserves a type of notes; see Jungkind 2014). The hand is described as a Biblical majuscule. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical) |
| Date from | 350 |
| Date to | 450 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. The ed. pr. places the miniature codex in the mid-3rd/mid 4th c. The fragments were dated to the end of the 4th c. by P. Orsini and G. Cavallo; see Cavallo 1967: 67 and Orsini 2005: 245 and 278. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Provenance is unknown. |
| Accession number | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 36112 + G 39779 |
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