P.Mich.inv. 4969 / Verso

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 4969

Processing Number

2361

Section/Side

12

Image Side

Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Recto + Verso

Connections

P. Mich. inv. 554

Material

Par

Size

10 x 26 cm.

Items

2

Lines

1-28

Mounted

No

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

This page of a parchment codex is regularly cut at both sides and at the bottom; the top has broken away. Considerable damage and loss of parchment in the middle section. The flesh side is almost white, whereas the hair side is varying in color, from medium-brown to dark brown. (TC) Since thirty-one lines remain on both recto and verso, and probably three or four lines are lost at the top of the page, the columns originally contained thirty-four to thirty-five lines. The complete page with the intercolumnar space and the margins, which are not preserved, must have been approximately 32 x 10 cm. in size, which is a normal size for a ninth century manuscript.

Palaeographic Description

A narrow uncial which must be considered normal for the ninth century

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

IXth century A.D.

Origin

Arsinoite nome, Egypt

Provenance

Arsinoite nome, Egypt

Acquisition

1921; Acquired by Kelsey from Dr. Askren; Notes by Crum, 1921

Language

Coptic

Genre

literary

Author

unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

martyrdoms

Content

the text appears to be a passage from the much discussed 'prayer' embedded in the Acts of Ciryus and Julitta.

Subject Headings

Coptic language|vPapyri.

Christian literature, Early.

Apocryphal books.

Persons

-

Geographica

-

Translation

" Recto:

(She adorned) the garment with pearls.

3. My mother is the church, and the pearls are the true words of God. The robe is the Holy Spirit.

4. And she sent me to some cities which are dark, there being storms there, and neither sun . . . in them, nor moon nor stars.

5. And I came to the first city, the one which is called Anethais Labyrinthos. And I found in that place some ass-centaurs and serpents, and a throng of demons, who wished to kill (me)

Verso

me. 6. I came to Babylon on the river which is called Sandy, the one on which no one is able to make his way except on the Sabbath. For it keeps the Sabbath itself, this river, in the manner of the synagogues of the Jews.

7. But I, with the power of the Holy Spirit, crossed the river on the fifth day, and there was in that place the great dragon. He came from the east, with his tail forming a circle around him and reaching his mouth; destruction was before him. His teeth were swords, his ribs (were of bronze) . . . "

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
Amer Res Cent Egypt 4	Husselman EM	1965	79-86	Pl XXXI	Husselman EM, Amer Res Cent Egypt 4, 79-86, 1965, Pl XXXI -- l. 32: Babylon (short o, not long as printed);	l. 32: Babylon (short o, not long as printed);

Cataloging

Cataloger

TC

Year Begin

800

Year End

899

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Record

2361

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2361/4969_12v.tif content_copy