Papyrus 113

Papyrus 113 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓¹¹³, is a fragment of an early copy of a section of the New Testament in Greek. It comes from a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans. The surviving text features parts of Romans 2:12-13 on one side of the fragment and parts of 2:29 on the other.

Papyrus 113

New Testament manuscript
Name	P. Oxy. 4497
Sign	𝔓113
Text	Epistle to the Romans 2:12-13,29
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at	Sackler Library
Cite	W. E. H. Cockle, OP LXVI (1999), pp. 7-8
Size	[31] x [18] cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type (?)
Category	none
Note	no unique readings

The manuscript paleographically has been assigned by the INTF to the 3rd century. Comfort dated it to the first half of the 3rd century. The manuscript is currently housed at the Papyrology Rooms, of the Sackler Library at Oxford University with the shelf number P. Oxy. 4497.

Text

Although Comfort stated that the Greek text of this codex is too small to determine its textual character, word-spacing analysis indicates that it contained the Alexandrian omission of του in verse 13.

No readings to be added.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri

Further reading

• W. E. H. Cockle, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXVI (London: 1999), pp. 7–8.
• Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 661–662. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.

External links

Images

• P.Oxy.LXIV 4497 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
• Image from 𝔓¹¹³ recto, fragment of Romans 2:12-13
• Image from 𝔓¹¹³ verso, fragment of Romans 2:29

Official registration

• "Continuation of the Manuscript List" Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster. Retrieved April 9, 2008