| Artefact ID | 729 |
| TM ID | TM 61416 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | Wayment and Ladenheim 2011: 381-384 Papyrus fragment containing the Infancy Gospel of James, 3:3-4:4. The ed. pr. lists the papyrus fragment as 'lost', but a photo of the fragment was found and identified as containing the Infancy Gospel of James by Ladenheim, and has since been catalogued properly; see ref. ed. The fragment preserves 12 lines of the rarely witnessed Protoevangelium Jacobi, and it appears to agree largely with P.Bodmer 5. A variant appears in l. 9; see Wayment 2011: 79. The text contains a diaeresis (l. 4) and apostrophe (see l. 8 after the name ᾿Ιωακειμ), and no punctuation is visible. The 12 lines of text are written in a relatively upright, evenly spaced Biblical uncial, which the ref. ed. places in the 4th c. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Non-canonical) |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography. The ed. pr. placed the fragment in the beginning og the 4th c.; the ref. ed. accepts this, and adds the comparanda of P.Oxy. X 1250 (text by Achilles Tatius from the 3rd c.) and P.Oxy. LXXI 4804 (Gospel of John from the 4th c.). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Provenance is unknown. |
| Accession number | Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE 85643 / SR 6P/1817. Previously believed to be lost; see ed. pr. |
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