Papyrus 121

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries
Papyrus 121
Surname	P. Oxy. LXXI 4805
character	121
text	John 19 : 17-18; 25-26
language	Greek
date	3rd century
Found	Oxyrhynchus , Egypt
Storage location	Sackler Library
source	R. Hatzilambrou, PJ Parsons, J. Chapa, OP LXXI. London 2007, pp. 9-11.
size	[4.5] x [3.3] cm (28 × 12)
Type	unknown
category	not assignable
note	Nomina sacra , diariesis

Papyrus 121 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ¹²⁰ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . These are fragments of a papyrus manuscript from the Gospel of John . ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$

description

Only a few fragments have survived to this day. The remainder of John's text includes parts of verses 19, 17-18 and 25-26. It was dated to the 3rd century by means of paleography .

The manuscript is written very irregularly, the spacing between the letters is not the same. Although the text is very small, it contains two nouns sacra : ΙΣ and ΜΗΙ ( dative of ΜΗΡ ). There are two dots ( diariesis ) above the letter Iota . On the back in the lower line, the scribe on the left did not use the letter Iota in the word και, although he put a dieresis over the letter alpha . It's probably a typo.

text

The Greek text of the code is too short to determine its text type. It can therefore not be classified in any text category. It consists of only 20 letters on the back ( recto ) and 18 letters on the front ( verso ).

Recto of ¹²¹ ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$	Verso of ¹²¹ ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$
νιου Τοπον ο λεγεται Ε βραιστι Γ ολγοθα οπου αυτον εσταρωσα ν και με τ 'αυτου αλλους δυο εντευθεν κ α εντευ θεν μεσον	η ΙΣ ουν ι δων την μητερα και τον μα θητην π αρεστωτα ον ηγαπα λεγ ει τη ΜΗ Ι Γυναι ιδε ο υιος
… Place called G olgotha in Hebrew. There they crucified him and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus between	When Jesus saw his mother, and the Jü nger w he loved moose standing next to it, he he said to his mother : "Woman, see, your son!"

The missing letters are shown in red.

storage

The manuscript is currently on display in the papyrology rooms of the Sackler Library , Oxford under the number P. Oxy. 4805 kept.

literature

R. Hatzilambrou, PJ Parsons, J. Chapa: The Oxyrhynchus Papyri , LXXI. London 2007, pp. 9-11.

Web links

Illustrations

P.Oxy.LXIV 4805 from Papyrology in Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online".

Official registration

Continuation of the list of manuscripts . (PDF; 147 kB) Institute for New Testament Text Research , University of Münster .

Individual evidence

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[1] INTF : Manuscript List