Papyrus 13

Papyrus **Papyri ${\mathfrak {P}}$ ¹³**
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Name	P. Oxyrhynchus 657
Text	Hebrews 2:14-5:5; 10:8-22; 10:29-11:13; 11:28-12:17
Date	225-250
Script	Greek
Found	Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at	British Library/Egyptian Museum
Cite	Grenfell & Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri 4:36-48. (#657)
Size	12 columns of scroll; 23-27 lines/column; pagination legible: 47-50, 61-65, 67-69.
Type	Alexandrian, often agrees with Vaticanus; 80% with Papyrus 46
Category	I
Note	largest papyrus other than Chester Beatty collection

Papyrus 13, designated by siglum ${\mathfrak {P}}$ ¹³ or P¹³ in the Gregory-Aland numbering, is a fragmented manuscript of the New Testament in Greek. It was copied on papyrus in the 3rd century at approximately 225-250 CE.

Papyrus 13 was discovered by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. It is currently housed at the British Library, Inv. Nr. 1532, and Egyptian Museum, SR 3796 25/1/55/2 (11), or PSI 1292.

The surviving text is twelve columns, of 23 to 27 lines each, from a scroll. This is all from the Epistle to the Hebrews, namely 2:14-5:5; 10:8-22; 10:29-11:13; 11:28-12:17. Its presence of pagination 47-50 means that Hebrews was preceded by only one book in the original scroll, likely the Epistle to the Romans as in Papyrus 46. It is the largest papyrus manuscript of the New Testament outside the Chester Beatty Papyri.

It was written on the back of a papyrus containing the Epitome of Livy and some scholars think the manuscript was possibly brought to Egypt by a Roman official and left behind when he left his post.

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