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Papyrus P34 is a seventh-century Greek papyrus fragment from a Pauline manuscript, held in Vienna as P.Vindob. G 39784. It preserves 1 Corinthians 16:4–7, 10 and 2 Corinthians 5:18–21; 10:13–14; 11:2, 4, 6–7, joining practical travel instructions, reconciliation theology, and Paul's contested ministry.
Uncial 0185: An Early Leaf of 1 Corinthians 2–3 is a separately registered physical witness to the copying and reception of 1 Corinthians 2:5–13; 1 Corinthians 3:2–3, identified by its own GA number, shelfmark, date, layout, and custodial history.
P.Oxy. VII 1008, Gregory-Aland P15, is a third-century papyrus codex leaf from Oxyrhynchus preserving 1 Corinthians 7:18–8:4 and illuminating both early Pauline transmission and the debated relationship between P15 and P16.
P.Oxy. LXXII 4844, Gregory-Aland P123, is a fourth-century papyrus leaf fragment preserving Paul’s instructions about orderly prophecy and part of his received tradition concerning Jesus’ death, burial, resurrection, and appearances.
P61, P. Colt 5 from the Nessana excavations, is a late-seventh- or eighth-century Greek papyrus witness to portions of seven Pauline letters, including a damaged subscription to Titus.
Papyrus P14 consists of seven reused binding fragments at Saint Catherine's Monastery that preserve portions of 1 Corinthians 1–3 and offer a rare, physically complicated witness to Pauline copying around the sixth century.
Russian National Library Gr. 258B, Gregory-Aland P68, is a sixth- or seventh-century papyrus fragment preserving parts of 1 Corinthians 4:12–17, 19–21 and 5:1–3.
Uncial 0186 and 0224: Fragments of 2 Corinthians 4 is a separately registered physical witness to the copying and reception of 2 Corinthians 4:5–13, identified by its own GA number, shelfmark, date, layout, and custodial history.
Papyrus P11 is a highly fragmented sixth-century Greek codex in Saint Petersburg preserving portions of 1 Corinthians 1-7, an unusually broad but broken witness to Paul's teaching on the cross, church conflict, holiness, and marriage.
Uncial 0121a: Pauline Fragments Written in Red Ink is a separately registered physical witness to the copying and reception of 1 Corinthians 15:52–58; 2 Corinthians 1:1–15; 2 Corinthians 11:1–15, identified by its own GA number, shelfmark, date, layout, and custodial history.
Codex Mosquensis I (GA 018) is a 9th century Greek parchment codex preserving Acts, the Catholic Epistles, and Paul’s letters with commentary.
Copied in Damascus in AD 867, Sinai Arabic 151 transmits Paul's letters, Acts, and the Catholic Epistles in Arabic with commentary and dense reader interventions, anchoring the early history of the Arabic Bible.
Uncial 0209: Romans, Corinthians, and 2 Peter beneath a Lectionary is the independently registered Greek New Testament witness GA 0209, controlled by its manuscript number, present shelfmark, physical form, and surviving biblical contents.
Fragments of an imperial letter from Delphi name Gallio as proconsul of Achaia. Because Claudius's titulature dates the letter closely, the inscription supplies the strongest external chronological anchor for Paul's Corinthian ministry in Acts 18 without mentioning Paul or the hearing itself.
Ephesus preserves the vast theater named in Acts 19 and the excavated Artemision whose cult, civic prestige, and economy explain why challenges to Artemis devotion could provoke public alarm.
A Greek metrical funerary inscription from the Saint-Pierre-l'Estrier cemetery at Autun, preserved in the Musée Rolin. A direct archaeological witness to Christian fish symbolism, baptismal language, communion imagery, and prayer for the dead in Roman Gaul.
Dated Nabataean silver and bronze issues name and portray Aretas IV, securely establishing the long-reigning king whom Paul names while leaving the scope of his ethnarch's authority in Damascus unresolved.
Corinth's healing sanctuary, dining rooms, springs, and terracotta body-part offerings reveal how illness, healing, social status, and the human body were publicly represented in Paul's city.
The Fragmenta Frisingensia are reused parchment leaves preserving Old Latin Pauline texts and later Latin material, offering rare physical evidence for epistle transmission and for the medieval recycling that accidentally saved it.
Corinth's excavated Roman food-market buildings and inscriptions give concrete urban context to Paul's instruction about meat sold in the makellon, while leaving unresolved which market his first readers used and whether any particular purchase had passed through a sacrifice.
The Water Newton hoard combines fourth-century silver vessels, votive plaques, Christian monograms, and named dedications, securely revealing a wealthy Christian community in Roman Britain while leaving the objects' precise liturgical functions unresolved.