The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 13:55-56 and 14:3-5: they are in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically to the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

Probably together with Papyrus 77 it belonged to the same codex.^[1]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. According to Comfort it is proto-Alexandrian text.^[1]

In Matthew 13:55, the name of Jesus' second brother reads [...]ης so that either Ἰωάννης (John) and Ἰωσῆς (Joses) are possible original readings.

Ἰωάννης (John) א* D M U Γ 2 28 579 1424 Byz^mss vg^mss Origen^pt

Ἰωσῆς (Joses) K L W Δ Π 0106 f¹³ 22 565 1241 1582^mg Byz^mss it^k,qc co^sa,bomss Basil of Caesarea

Ἰωσῆ (Joses) 118 157 700* 1071 syr^h co^bomss

Ἰωσὴφ (Joseph) א² B C N Θ f¹ 33 700^c 892 lat syr^s,c,hmg mae-1 Codex Schøyen co^bomss Origen^pt

Location

The manuscript is currently housed at the Sackler Library (Papyrology Rooms, P. Oxy. 4403) in Oxford.^[2]

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri

• J. David Thomas, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXIV (London: 1997), pp. 5–7.
• Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 641–644. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.

Images edit

• P.Oxy.LXIV 4403 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
• 𝔓¹⁰³ recto and verso

Official registration edit

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