Papyrus 65, P65
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First Composed: 28 April 2000
Last Updated: 28 April 2000
Name
Papyrus 65 (PSI 1373), P65
Date
3rd Century CE.
Provenance
May be Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.
Size
The original size may have been around 18 cm. x 25 cm. Bartoletti pointed out the similarities between the script of P65 and P49. It seems that these two manuscripts may be from the same codex.
Contents
I Thessalonians 1:3-2:1, 6-13.
Textual Character
According to Metzger, this papyrus has Alexandrian text type. The Alands believe that it is most likely a "strict" text. The text is too brief to ascertain the precise text type.
Writing
It is written in a documentary hand.
Location
Istituto Papirologico G. Vitelli, Florence, Italy.
References
[1] Vittorio Bartoletti, Papiri Greci e Latini Della Societa Italiana, 1957, Volume 14, pp. 5-7.