| Artefact ID | 982 |
| TM ID | TM 62312 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Sheet/roll |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P.Amh. 3b and c Sheet of papyrus on the recto of which a private Christian letter (P.Amh. I 3a / SB VI 9557) sent from Rome to some Christian community in the Arsinoites nome mentioning the patriarch Maximus (264-282). Three columns of text but the content of the first one is almost completely lost. At the top of col. II, in the upper margin, three lines of the first verse of the epistle to the Hebrews (Hebrews 1:1) were added in a different hand, a small uncial hand dated to the end of 3rd c. or more probably early 4th in ed. pr. (P.Amh. I 3b). On the verso in a more cursive hand, the first five verses to Genesis (Gen. 1:1-5) in the LXX followed by the version of Aquila, written apparently about the time of Constantine (P.Amh. I 3c). While P.Amh. I 3b (P12) is described as “occasional notes” by Alands (Text of the New Testament, 85), P.Amh. I 3c (Gen.) is categorized as a “possible amulet” in De Bruyn and Dijkstra 2011: no. 155. Recto: text written along the fibres; Verso: across the fibres. Use of abbreviated nomina sacra in 3b and 3c. |
| Selection criteria | Nomina sacra, Biblical quote or paraphrase |
| Date from | 264 |
| Date to | 325 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography and historical content. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912. Probably found in the Fayyum. |
| Accession number | New York, Pierpont Morgan Library S. L. 4687.1 Ro [2] & Vo; [Pierpont Morgan Library, Amherst Gr. 3 Ro [2] & Vo (previous)] |
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