Example from 4Q127

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     4Q127, 3
     Qumran Cave 4 near the Dead Sea.
     Approximately 1st. century BC to the early 1st. century AD.
     Paraphrase of Exodus. (4Qpap ParaExod gr)
     Discoveries in the Judaean Desert IX, (DJD IX), "Qumran Cave 4: Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts", edited by P. Skehan, et al. Plate XLVII.

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Scanned from Plate XLVII of Discoveries in the Judaean Desert IX, (DJD IX), "Qumran Cave 4: Palaeo-Hebrew and Biblical Manuscripts", edited by P. Skehan, et al. Oxford, 1992.
Plate XLVII in DJD IX is derived from IAA 225837. Fragment 3 of 4Q127 can also be found among the PAM images, namely: 41.932, 42.145 and 43.560. The Microfiche edition contains a good copy of PAM 42.145, while the Facsimile edition contains a good copy of 41.932.

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Primary Example:


Other Examples:

     See the shaded area on line 3 of the image below. The diagonal stroke curves and becomes horizontal at the point where it meets the right vertical stroke.
     Possibly fragment 16. (There is a total of 86 papyrus fragments depicted on plate XLVII of DJD IX).
     P. J. Parsons, on pages 7-12 of DJD IX, describes the palaeography and dating of all six Greek manuscripts found in Qumran Cave 4. On pages 8 and 9, he shows typical examples of letters from each of the manuscripts. The examples for 4Q127 are shown in figure 6 on page 9. The nus from this chart are shown just beneath the image of fragment 3 found below.