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Papyrus 2020
- Record Id:
- 040-002105402
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000115
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123532.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2020
- Title:
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Testamentum Vetus (Theodotion), Daniel (P.Lond.Lit. 211, TM 62329, LDAB 3493)
- Scope & Content:
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Parchment fragment containing Theodotion’s version of Daniel I:17-18. A few variants occur.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105402 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2020 : Testamentum Vetus (Theodotion), Daniel (P.Lond.Lit. 211, TM 62329, LDAB 3493) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0693]/040-002105402
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a parchment roll or codex, reused for the binding of Or. 7594. Writing is on one side only. 8 lines from a column survive; they are almost complete, lacking 1-3 letters to the left and occasionally 1-2 letters to the right. The fragment is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123532.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0349
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 40 x 71 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 100 x 130 mm.
Script: Careful and elegant upright uncial hand. Nomen sacrum is not contracted.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Upper Egypt.
Provenance: Upper Egypt. Re-used with Papyri 2021-2036 to form the cover of the papyrus codex inventoried as Or. 7594, which was acquired in the spring of 1911. The Greek papyri were transferred from the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts of the British Museum on 10 October 1911.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 211
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915. Part I. Descriptions (London: British Museum 1969), p. 476.
H. I. Bell, in E. A. W. Budge, Coptic Biblical Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt (London: British Musuem 1912), p. XV, with pl. IX.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp.179-180, no. 211.
C. H. Roberts, ‘P.Yale 1 and the Early Christian Book’, in Essays in honor of C. Bradford Welles (New Haven: American Society of Papyrologists 1966), p. 26.
K. Treu, ‘Die Bedeutung des Griechischen für die Jüden im Römischen Reich’, Kairos 15 (1973), pp. 123-144 (p. 142).
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), pp. 117-118, no. 319 descr.
C. H. Roberts, Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt (London-New York: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 1979), p. 77.
C. H. Roberts, T. C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex (London-Oxford: Oxford University Press 1983), p. 39.
A. Papathomas, ‘Ein Kodexfragment mit dem alttestamentlichen Gebet des Asarja in der Übersetzung Theodotions’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 126 (1999), pp. 219-222 (p. 220).
R. Luiselli, ‘Papiri greci riutilizzati per la manifattura di un cartonnage di legatura’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 142 (2003), pp. 147-162 (p. 152, n. 26).
A. Rahlfs, D. Fraenkel, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2004), pp. 217-219 no. 925.
L. W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans 2006), p. 59, and passim.
N. de Lange, Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Bible Translations in Byzantine Judaism (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2015), pp. 72, 146.
W. Clarysse, P. Orsini, ‘Christian Manuscripts from Egypt to the Times of Constantine’, in J. Heilmann, M. Klinghardt (eds.), Das Neue Testament und sein Text im 2. Jahrhundert. Texte und Arbeiten zum neutestamentlichen Zeitalter (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto 2018), pp. 107-114 (p. 111).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)