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TM 56121 / LDAB 56121 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/56121

also known as P. Amherst 63; PAmherst 63

Metadata

Date: 4th century BC: BC 399 - 300?
second half 2nd century BC: BC 150 - 100?

Provenance: Elephantine (Geziret Assuan) - Egypt (1st Upper Egyptian nome ElephantineThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]
Thebes, near - Egypt (4th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]

Language/script: Aramaic (in Demotic script)

allographic

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll

Content (beta!): narrative, religion (The Revolt of Babylon, three Israelite hymns and a further hymn with universalist character)

Authors / works: Testamentum vetus (Palestinian Aramaic), Psalmi: 020 (epitomized)

Culture & genre: literature, religion — prose + poetry (hymns) (religion: jewish)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

van der Toorn, Papyrus Amherst 63 (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 448) (van der Toorn, Karel - 2018) [default]

∙CPJ 4 615 (Piotrkowski, Meron M. / Szántó, Zsuzsanna - 2020; only col. 16 & 11)

∙Hallo (ed.), The context of scripture 1 p. 309-327 no. 99 (Steiner, Richard C. - 1997)

∙Vleeming / Wesselius, Papyrus Amherst 63 2 p. 30-44 & 46-52 & 54-64 & 65-71 & 75-90 (Vleeming, Sven P. / Wesselius, Jan Wim - 1990; col. 10, 9 - 11, 16; 12, 1-11)

∙Loretz (ed.), Die Königspsalmen p. 55-75 (Kottsieper, Ingo - 1988; col. 12, 11-19)

∙Revue biblique 92 (1985), p. 60-81 (Nims, Charles F. / Steiner, Richard C. - 1985) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Vleeming / Wesselius, Papyrus Amherst 63 1 p. 33-37 & 50-72 & 88 (Vleeming, Sven P. / Wesselius, Jan Wim - 1985; a completely different translation and interpretation of the text of col. 11, 16-20; col. 12, 11 - 13, 17; col. 18-23)

∙Journal of Near Eastern Studies (JNES) 43 (1984), p. 93-96 (Steiner, Richard C. / Nims, Charles F. - 1984; col. 6 only) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Jaarbericht Ex oriente lux 28 (1983-1984), p. 116 (Vleeming, Sven P. / Wesselius, Jan Wim - 1983-1984; col. 7, 1-18)

∙Bibliotheca Orientalis 39 (1982), p. 501-509 (Vleeming, Sven P. / Wesselius, Jan Wim - 1982; col. 12, 11-19)

∙Newberry, Amherst papyri p. 55 no. 63 descr. (Newberry, Percy E. - 1899) Please subscribe to follow this link

Content studies: M. Rösel, Vetus Testamentum 50 (2000), p. 81-99

Script & book studies: date: A dating in the fourth century BC seems to be accepted today. For different dates see the discussion between Vleeming/Wesselius and Nims/Steiner.

Collections

→ Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. without number
+→ New York, Pierpont Morgan Library Amherst Eg. 63

∙Norfolk, Private collection Amherst number unknown (previous)

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