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fragment of Proverbs 7:23-8:9 and 10:23-11:3. Five other tiny
fragments might have come from the same codex, but they are two
small for identification beyond all doubt (N.94/93).
The other whole card (N. 84/93) comes from another codex
and contains a Sahidic fragment of the Letter of St. Paul to the
Colossi 2:2-2:19.3 Based on the paleography, it can be dated to
a slightly later period, namely the 6th/7th century.4
The remaining texts in this assemblage are, as already
mentioned, later and are dated to the 9th, 10th and 11th century.5
The Biblical texts include also a Sahidic fragment of the last
card of a codex containing the Gospel of St. John 21:20-25
(N.77/93) of the 9th/10th century. The title of the Gospel:
ne[Y2irreAio]N kxtx [icd^nnhc, is placed inside a frame made
of obelos marks at the end of the text. On the verso of the same
card there is a colophon, but neither the date nor the scribe's name
have survived.
One should also mention another recently published
fragment of the New Testament: a parchment piece containing Mt.
3 :10-11 and 3:14-15 of the Fayum Gospel of St. Matthew,6 which
is dated to the 9th/10th century. This fragment, unlike the other texts
discussed here, was discovered in 1989 in room 6 on kom D.
Beside the Biblical texts which have been identified so far,
a highly interesting set of liturgical texts was discovered at Naqlun

3 Identified by Prof. E. Wipszycka already during the 1995 excavation
campaign.
4 W. Stegemann, Koptische Palaographie, Heidelberg 1936, Taf.8.
5 The paleographic dating for all the remaining texts, also that not
mentioned specially in footnotes, is given after W. Stegemann, Koptische
Palaographie, Heidelberg 1936, Taf.8.
6K. Urbaniak-Walczak, Naqlun, koptische Texte (Grabungskampagne
1989), in: JJP XXIII, 1993, 159 f.; id., Ein Pergamentbruchstiick eines
Matthausevangeliums, Festschrift Prof M. Krause, BSAC XXXV, 11995, 149-
154.

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