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Title TM 107779
Work Testamentum Vetus (Coptic), Iob
Content Old Testament; Iob 30.21-30
Fragments Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 5421
Support Material papyrus
Date 250 - 350
More from the period between 250 CE and 350 CE
Origin Found: Karanis (Arsinoites, Egypt); written: Egypt
More from Found: Karanis (Arsinoites, Egypt); written: Egypt
Form and Layout papyrus codex (1 fol.) (columns: 1)
Genre prose; bible; wisdom
Culture literature
Religion christian
Print Illustrations ed. princ. pl.1
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 107779 [source]

Publications Browne, Michigan Coptic texts 2 (1979)
Inv. no. Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 5421
Date AD 250 - 350
Language Coptic (mixed dialect)
Provenance Egypt, 00a - Karanis (Kom Aushim)[found]; Egypt[written]

Catalog Record: michigan.apis.2460 [xml]

Title Job, 30. 21-30.
Author unknown
Summary recto: Job. 21-25, verso: Job 26-30.
Citations Browne GM, Mich Coptic Texts, 2, 1979, Pl I
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 5421
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 10.5 x 9.1 cm.
Condition This fragmentary leaf of a codex is broken off on three sides; the recto preserves the right margin, the verso the left. Due to the absence of close parallels, we cannot determine precisely how much text is lost between the end of the recto and the beginning of the verso; but the amount cannot have been great, and probably did not exceed three lines. After restoration, the average line length is 11.5 cm. The extant margin is ca. 1.3 cm., and the original breadth of the sheet was probably about 14 cm. Although the upper and lower margins do not survive, a rough calculation based on the amount of text presumed lost suggests that, when intact, the sheet was approximately 14 cm. high. We are therefore dealing with the smaller square format found in such early Coptic codices as the Gespraeche Jesu, the Mississipi Crosby, and the Achmimic Proverbs.
Lines 1-21
Recto/Verso Source of description: Recto + Verso
Hands Both codex typology and individual letter form place the text early, probably in the fourth or early fifth century. Related to the early date is the absence of dialectic standardization, which makes any restoration virtually impossible, except on an exempli-gratia basis.
Origin Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt (?)
More from Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt (?)
Language Coptic
Date IVth/Vth century A.D.
More from the period between 300 CE and 499 CE
Note (general) Location: Ann Arbor
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto + Verso
Note (related) -
Subjects -; Egypt--Karanis (Extinct city).; Bible.--O.T.--Job.; Papyrus; literature; Old Testament
Images Recto thumbnail
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License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

APIS Translation (English)

recto: "(30. 21) ... with a strong hand, without pity you whipped me, (22) and you set me in pain. (23) I know that death will destroy me, for the home of all the dead is the earth. (24) Would that it were possible for me to kill myself or to beg another to do so for me. (25) I ...";verso: "(26) ... days .... evil days befell me. (27 omitted) (28) I was in never-silent sighing, I resided in an assembly, and I shouted. (29) I became friends with the ostriches and the sparrows, (30) and my skin and my bones became dark from the heat."