OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

Frg.1: 10.5 x 7 cm.; Frg.2: 11 x 9 cm.

Lines:

Frg.1: 9; Frg. 2: 10

Publication side:

Recto

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

IVth century CE

Origin:

Unknown place, Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Septuagint fragments

Content:

–

Subjects:

Septuagint

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Rudberg, G., Videnskapsselskapets forhandlinger for 1923, No. 2, Septuaginta-Fragmente unter den Papyri Osloenses, 1923, pp. 1-8
• Eitrem, S., & L. Amundsen, P.Oslo II, 1931, pp. 10-11
• Roberts, C.H., Two Biblical Papyri in the John Rylands Library Manchester, 1936, pp. 47-62
• Roberts, C.H., P.Ryl. III, 1938, pp. 10-13 (no. 460)

Further Literature

Catalogues

TM 62018 / LDAB 3177 / DCLP / 4Care ID 988 / van Haelst 299 / Rahlfs 958

Discussions

• Westermann, W.L. (1925). [Review of Septuaginta-Fragmente unter den Papyri Osloenses, by G. Rudberg]. Classical Philology, 20(2), 175. https://www.jstor.org/stable/263786
• Ellioot, J.K. (1999). The Biblical Manuscripts of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 81(2), 3-50. https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.81.2.1. Description of P.Ryl. 460+P.Oslo II 11, pp 24-26.
• Falcetta, A. (2001). A Testimony Collection in Manchester: Papyrus Rylands Greek 460. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 83(1), 3-19.
• Rahlfs, A. (2004). Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Bd. I, 1. Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert, bearbeitet von Detlef Fraenkel. Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. Description at catalogue no. 958; pp. 242-244 (P.Ryl III 460) & p. 269 (P.Oslo II 11).
• Penner, K. M., & B. Pass (2022). The Value of Codex Marchalianus for the Greek Text of Isaiah. Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 55, pp. 103-133. https://doi.org/10.2143/JSCS.55.0.3291483. List of papyrological witnesses to the Greek text of Isaiah, pp. 108-109.