COLLECTION NAME:
Papyri Collection
Record
Reference number:
Greek P 465
Side:
recto (hair side)
Image Number:
JRL15060009
Image Title:
Amulet
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Bible. New Testament
Subject:
Religion
Citation reference:
P.Ryl. 3 465
Description:
Amulet. The text on this side of the parchment is taken from the liturgy of Saint Mark. It continues on the verso where a prayer for the dead was added in a different handwriting. The verso is a palimpsest: the Greek was written perpendicularly to an older Coptic manuscript. Purchased by J. Rendel Harris in Egypt in 1917
Creation site:
Egypt
Date created:
6th century CE
Language:
Greek
Language code:
grc-EG
Item height:
122 mm
Item width:
190 mm
Technique used:
Handwriting
Support material:
Parchment
Discovery site:
Egypt
Notes:
The Coptic text is currently being studied by Malcolm Choat (Macquarie University) with a view to publication. Dated to the 6th century CE on the basis of palaeography.
Bibliography:
J. Van Haelst, Catalogue des Papyrus Littéraires Juifs et Chrétiens, (Paris 1976), n. 976; J. Dijkstra, T. De Bruyn, 'Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Elements: A Checklist of Papyri, Parchments, Ostraka, and Tablets', BASP 48 (2011), n. 127.
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Category:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Fragments
Sub-Category:
Palimpsest
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Image sequence number:
grc0465r
Image technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date image captured:
2015-06-05
Edition:
C.H. Roberts, Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, vol. III, Manchester 1938, 25-28; J. Hammarstaedt, Griechische Anaphorenfragmente aus Ägypten und Nubien, Papyrologica Coloniensia XXVIII, 1999, 76-95.
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Amulet
