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MS. Gr. th. f. 9 (P)

Summary Catalogue no.: 33011

Papyrological Reference: P. Oxy. I 5

Trismegistos no.: 61461

Described by Grenfell and Hunt as a 'fragment of a Christian homily or treatise on the spirit of prophecy'. A. Harnack in Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 36 (1898), 516-520 identified that lines 1-9 quote from Hermas, Pastor, 11.9.10, and suggested that the text as a whole could be a fragment of the treatise by Melito of Sardis, De prophetia, recorded by Eusebius; see further H. Paulsen in New Testament Studies 25/4 (1979), 443-453.

Language(s): Greek

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: papyrus

Extent: fragment of a leaf from a codex

Hand(s)

Uncial.

History

Origin: 3rd century, late or 4th century, early ; Egyptian, Oxyrhynchus (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Excavated at Oxyrhynchus.

Presented by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund on 9 Nov. 1900.

Record Sources

Description summarized from B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus papyri I (1898) no. 5, with additional reference to published literature as cited.

Summary Catalogue, vol. 6, p. 217