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Oxyrhynchus: papyri in the Petrie Museum

Greek papyrus fragment with beginning of St Paul's Epistle to the Colossians 3 9-11; the papyrus shows signs of having been folded up into a panel about 2 cm wide, perhaps to be worn as an amulet.

date: late Roman or Byzantine Period

UC 32070



 

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