Papyrus 2

Papyrus 2 (𝔓²) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek and Coptic. It is a papyrus fragment of a copy of the Gospel of John dating to the sixth century. It is currently housed at the Egyptian Museum, Florence (Inv. no. 7134).^[1] There is a portion of Luke 7:22-26.50 in Coptic on the reverse of the fragment.

Papyrus 𝔓²

New Testament manuscript
Text	John 12:12-15; Luke 7:22-26,50
Date	c. 500-600
Found	Egypt
Now at	Museo Archeologico, Florence, Inv. Nr. 7134
Cite	E. Pistelli, 'Papiri evangelici', Rivista di Studi Religiosi 6 (1902): 69-70.
Size	fragment
Type	mixed (Greek & Coptic)
Category	III

The fragment appears to be from a lectionary.^[2] The text type is a mixed.^[3] Aland placed it in Category III.^[4]

The name of Jerusalem (usually ιεροσολυμα, Ierosolyma) is given the variant spelling ιερου[σο]λ̣υ̣[μα] (Ierousolyma).

Ermenegildo Pistelli dated the manuscript to the 5th or 6th century; Ernst von Dobschütz to the 6th or 7th century.^[5]

See also

• John 12
• List of New Testament papyri
• Luke 7
• New Testament papyrus
• Coptic versions of the Bible