Detail View: Papyri Collection: Amulet

Reference number: 
Greek P 465
Side: 
verso (flesh side)
Image Number: 
JRL15060010
Image Title: 
Amulet
Trismegistos Number: 
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Bible. New Testament
Subject: 
Religion
Citation reference: 
P.Ryl. 3 465
Description: 
Amulet. Ending lines from the liturgy (anaphora) of Saint Mark (ll. 1-10), followed by a prayer for the dead in a different handwriting (ll. 11-21). These texts are written perpendicularly to a wash out 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
Image rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Image sequence number: 
grc0465v
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