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Artefact ID846
TM IDTM 62005
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll, Uncertain
Text contentLiterary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Laur. III 54

Papyrus fragment containing Psalm 50: 3-1.

The sheet measures 7 x 7.3 cm, and preserves the remnants of 15 lines of text written in one column. The verso is blank. The format appears to have been a papyrus sheet containing a single Psalm for personal or liturgical use; see the ed. pr.

Abbreviations are suspended, and the usual nomina sacra appear throughout the text.

The hand is described as a sloping pointed majuscule, which is placed in the 4th c., advancing on the beginning of the 5th.

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Biblical), Subliterary genre (Liturgical), Nomina sacra, Biblical quote or paraphrase
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography. The ed. pr. places the hand in the 4th c.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

The provenance is unknown.

Accession number

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, inv. PL II 39

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps:

∙ Pintaudi, Rosario. 1979. Dai Papiri della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, III. Florence, no. 54 and pl. 51. 

Additional bibliography:

∙ Crisci, Eduardo. 2002. Papiri Letterari della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (CD-Rom). Cassino. Papyrus no. 54.

∙ Rahlfs, Alfred and Detlef Fraenkel. 2004 (1914). Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen. 113-114, descr. no. 2165.

Authors
Sofia Heim, 2021
Suggested citation
Sofia Heim, 2021, "Artefact ID 846", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/846
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