Papyrus 125

Papyrus 125

New Testament manuscript
Name	P. Oxy. 4934
Sign	${\mathfrak {P}}$125
Text	1 Peter 1:23-2:5; 7-12
Date	3rd/4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at	Sackler Library
Cite	D. Obdink (2009)
Size	15 cm by 8.5 cm
Type	Alexandrian (?)
Category	none

Papyrus 125 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ${\mathfrak {P}}$¹²⁵, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle of Peter.

Description

To the present day survived only pieces from one leaf of the codex. The surviving texts of 1 Peter are verses 1:23-25; 2:1-4, they are in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 3rd or 4th century (INTF). The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page. The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. It was published by D. Obbink in 2009.

Location

The manuscript currently is housed at the Papyrology Rooms of the Sackler Library at Oxford with the shelf number P. Oxy. 4934.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri
• Biblical manuscript

Further reading

• Obdink D., N. Gonis, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXIII (London: 2009), pp. 17–22, Pl. II-III.

External links

General Info

• Leuven Database of Ancient Books Entry

Images

• P.Oxy.LXXII 4934 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online".

Official registration

• "Continuation of the Manuscript List" Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster. Retrieved September 9, 2009