| Artefact ID | 725 |
| TM ID | TM 61704 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | Gregory-Aland P8; 𝔓8; NT8; Gregory 1909: 1086-1090 A bifolio from a codex containing Luke, Acts of the Apostles 4-6 passim. The papyrus fragment measures 19 x 24.2 cm, and preserves 4 columns of text containing 29, 28, 28 and 25 lines of text respectively. The codex is estimated to have measured approx. 25 x 15 cm originally. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Nomina sacra |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 350 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. Placed in the first half of the 4th c. by the palaeographers W. Clarysse and P. Orsini; see Clarysse/Orsini 2012: 469. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Provenance is unknown. The fragment was gifted by Émile Charles Adalbert Brugsch in 1897. |
| Accession number | Previously in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 8683. The fragment is now lost. |
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