P.Mich.inv. 5421 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 5421
- Processing Number
- 2460
- Section/Side
- Recto + Verso
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto + Verso
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 10.5 x 9.1 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-21
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- 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.
- Palaeographic Description
- 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.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IVth/Vth century A.D.
- Origin
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt (?)
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 28-B168L-B
- Language
- Coptic
- Genre
- literature; Old Testament
- Author
- unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Job, 30. 21-30.
- Content
- recto: Job. 21-25, verso: Job 26-30.
- Persons
- -
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- 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."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2460
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections Mich Coptic Texts Browne GM 1979 2 Pl I Browne GM, Mich Coptic Texts, 2, 1979, Pl I
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- R. Kasser and H. Satzinger, Wiener Zeitschrift fuer die Kunde des Moregenlandes
- 74 (1982) 15-32
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 300
- Year End
- 499
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3669 x 4417
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2460
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2460/5421r.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 5421; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2460/5421r.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 20, 2024.