Witness:	𝔓4
Aliases:	GA P4. TM 61783A.
Description:	Papyrus, 17x13.5 (18x14) cm, 5 extant leaf(s), 2 column(s), 36 line(s) per column, 12-18 characters per line, written in Greek.
Provenance:	150-199 – Written by unknown scribe with professional hand in Koptos, Aegyptus?, modern Qifṭ, Miṣr. ︎🌍 Was used as stuffing for the binding of a codex of Philo dated to the late third century. Written by the same scribe as P64+P67, but differences in fiber orientation suggest that it likely belonged to another codex [Charlesworth].
	1889 – Excavated by ? in Qifṭ, Miṣr from a jar that had been walled up in a house. 1891 – Purchased by Vincent Sheil in Al Uqşur, Miṣr. 1892 – Transferred to Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) in Paris, France. Today – Suppl. Gr. 1120, Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France), Paris, France.
Content:	Luke 1:58-60, 1:62-2:4, 2:6-7, 3:8-4:2, 4:29-32, 34-35, 5:3-8, 5:30-6:16. (99 verses)
Bibliography:	Charlesworth, S.D. "T. C. Skeat, P64+67 and P4, and the Problem of Fibre Orientation in Codicological Reconstruction". New Testament Studies, vol. 53, no. 4, p. 582–604. Cambridge University Press (London), October 2007. OCLC 1713962. ISSN 0028-6885. Comfort, Philip W. and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, Logos Research edition. Tyndale House Publishers (Wheaton), 2001. OCLC 45023548. ISBN 9780842352659. [compared] Comfort, Philip W. Encountering the manuscripts : an introduction to New Testament paleography & textual criticism. Broadman & Holman (Nashville), 2005. OCLC 62252205. ISBN 9780805431452. [dated] Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung. New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room. (Münster). https://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/manuscript-workspace, accessed 04/12/2024. [compared] Merell, J. "Nouveaux fragments papyrus IV". Revue Biblique, vol. 47, p. 5-22. Librairie Victor Lecoffre (Paris), 1938. OCLC 8461065. ISSN 1240-3032. [princeps]
Transcription:	Created on or before 06/01/2007, modified 04/17/2016.