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Papyrus 140

New Testament manuscript
Name	PSI inv. 1971
Sign	𝔓140
Text	Acts 7:54-55 (recto); 7:57-58 (verso).
Date	5th century
Script	Greek
Found	Possibly Oxyrhynchus
Now at	Papyrological Institute, Florence, Italy
Cite	Francesca Maltomini et al (ed), Firenze University Press (2018). Papyri of the Italian Society, vol. XVII, 3-5.
Size	2.8 x 4.3 cm

Papyrus 140 (designated as 𝔓¹⁴⁰ in the Gregory-Aland numbering system) is a small surviving portion of an early copy of part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts. The text survives on a single fragment of a codex, the recto containing the initial letters of 4 lines of the second column of a page, and the verso the final letters of 4 lines (plus minimal traces of a fifth) of the first column of the next page. The manuscript has been assigned paleographically to the fifth century.

Location

𝔓¹⁴⁰ is housed at the Papyrological Institute in Florence, Italy.

Ć== Textual Variants ==

• 7:54-55 According to the PSI reconstruction, the recto reads

επ α̣υ̣τ̣ο̣[ν πληρηϲ
δε ϋπ̣[αρχων
πν̅ι α̣[γιω ατε-
νιϲα[ϲ ειϲ τον demonstrating a transposition of πληρηϲ and ϋπ̣αρχων, and a change from the genitive πν̅ϲ α̣γιου to the dative πν̅ι α̣γιω, as compared to the reading in most manuscripts of Acts.

• 7:57-58 According to the PSI reconstruction, the verso reads

[οµοθ]υµαδο[ν επ αυ]τον εκ- βαλον]τεϲ δε εξω τη]ϲ πολεωϲ ελιθο]β̣[ο] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |3= (help)

showing the omission of και at the beginning of verse 58.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri