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Papyrus 60

Papyrus 60, signed by 𝔓60, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, it contains John 16:29-19:26.

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Papyrus 𝔓60
New Testament manuscript
Fragments 1-5 recto John 16:30; 16:33; 17:3-4; 17:8-9; 17:12-13
Fragments 1-5 recto John 16:30; 16:33; 17:3-4; 17:8-9; 17:12-13
NamePapyrus Colt 4
TextJohn 16-19 †
Dateca. 700
ScriptGreek
FoundEgypt
Now atThe Morgan Library & Museum
CiteL. Casson, E.L. Hettich, Excavations at Nessana II, Literary Papyri (Princeton: 1946), pp. 94-111.
TypeAlexandrian text-type
CategoryIII

Papyrus 60 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓60, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, it contains John 16:29-19:26.

The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the sixth or seventh century.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.1

It is currently housed at the Morgan Library & Museum (P. Colt 4) in New York City.12

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Further reading

Further reading

  • L. Casson, and E.L. Hettich, Excavations at Nessana II, Literary Papyri (Princeton: 1946), pp. 94–111.