The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part VI

846. Amos ii.

The upper portion of a leaf from a papyrus codex, preserving part of the second chapter of the book of Amos in the Septuagint version. Six lines are lost at the bottom of the verso, and the size of the complete page can be estimated at about 26.5 x 15.5 cm. The large and heavy uncial script, round and upright, in brown ink, and resembling the hand of P. Amh. 190, is probably of the sixth century. At the ends of the longer lines the writing becomes very small. Two kinds of stops, the high and middle, occur, as well as some of the usual contractions. The text is fairly correct, and so far as it goes coincides for the most part with that of the Vaticanus, Alexandrinus, and Marchalianus, with which we give a collation. The only variant of interest is in verse 7, where a reading peculiar to a few cursives occurs.

Verso ii. 6–8.

for the sake of sandals
[the] ones trampling upon the [dust]
of the earth; and they were buffet[ing]
into the heads of the poor
5 and they turned aside the way of the humble;
[and] the son and his fathe[r]
[were] going in to the same
servant girl so that they might defile
[the] name [of] their G[od;] and their garments
10 [binding with] ropes
[they] were making hangings
[held] to the alt[ar]
and wine from extortion
they were drinking in the house
15 of their G[od.]

Recto ii. 9–12.

[of] him from beneath; and I
[led] you up from the land of [Eg]ypt
[and led] you [around]
20 [in] the wilderness forty
[years] to [inher]it the land of the
[Amor]ites; and I took [from]
[your] sons for pro[phe]ts,
25 and from your young
[men] for sanctif[ication.]
[Are not] these, sons
[of Israel,] says the Lo[rd; and you were giv]ing
29 [the] sanctified to [dri]nk w[ine]
30 [and to] the prophets
[you were command]ing, saying:
[You shall not prophesy.]

7. iseporeuonto: or eis(e)poreuonto they were entering. The supplement at the end of the line is rather long, and perhaps ten the was omitted.
8. [bebelo]ousin: so the cursives 86, 153, 198 (Holmes); bebelosin B, Swete, bebelososi(n) AQ, &c.