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The Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5101, signed as P.Oxy.LXXVII 5101 are fragments of a manuscript in koine Greek language of the Septuaginta (LXX) written on papyrus, in scroll form. Palaeographycally it has been dated between year 50 and 150 C.E.
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Discovering
This is a manuscript discovered at Oxyrhynchus, it has been catalogued with number 5101. Also this manuscript is known with number 2227 in the list of the manuscripts of the Septuaginta as the classification of Alfred Rahlfs. These fragments was published in 2011 by Danielę Colomo and W.B. Henry in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol LXXVII (77).
Description
These fragments contain Psalms 26:9-14; 44:4-8; 47:13-15; 48:6-21; 49:2-16; 63:6-64:5 according numbering of the Septuaginta. “This is probably the earliest extant copy of the Septuagint Psalms.” The text was written by an inexperienced writer in uncial script characters. Fragments thereof six columns of the manuscript are preserved. This is one of the known fragments of the Septuagint found in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript contains the tetragrammaton to represent the Divine Name written in archaic Hebrew characters (Palaeo-Hebrew script ).
Actual location
The manuscript currently is housed in section Papyrology, in the Sackler Library at Oxford (20 3B.36/J(4)B + 27 3B.38/N(1)B + 27 3B.41/J(1-2)c).