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Papyrus P94, Cairo P. Cair. 10730, is a fifth- or sixth-century Greek papyrus codex fragment preserving parts of Romans 6:10–13 and 6:19–22.
Papyrus P118, Cologne inventory 10311, comprises four Greek papyrus fragments from a two-column codex preserving portions of Romans 15:26–27, 15:32–33, 16:1, 16:4–7, and 16:11–12; traditionally dated to the third century, its palaeographic date remains disputed.
Gregory-Aland P26, P.Oxy. XI 1354, is the Bridwell Library's papyrus fragment of Romans 1:1–16. Dated around the sixth or seventh century, it preserves most of Paul's extended opening and the declaration that the gospel is God's power for salvation, offering a later independent witness alongside the earlier P10 fragment.
P. Heid. Inv. G 645, Gregory-Aland P40, is a third-century Greek papyrus codex represented by ten fragments preserving substantial portions of Romans 1–4, 6, and 9.
Uncial 0221: Romans 5–6 on Adam, Grace, and Baptism is the independently registered Greek New Testament witness GA 0221, controlled by its manuscript number, present shelfmark, physical form, and surviving biblical contents.
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.
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.
The earliest surviving extensive codex of Paul's letters preserves eighty-six leaves, a distinctive order with Hebrews near the front, and enough missing final space to make claims about the Pastoral Epistles possible but unresolved.
Excavated quays, moles, warehouses, waterfront buildings, roads, cemeteries, and submerged structures establish Cenchreae as Roman Corinth’s eastern maritime gateway and the concrete setting of Phoebe’s church in Romans 16.
A bronze sestertius of Emperor Nerva proclaims that the abuse or reproach of the Jewish tax had been removed. Issued in AD 96–97, the type is direct imperial evidence for the continuing fiscal consequences of Rome’s destruction of Jerusalem and Nerva’s public reform.
A mud-brick basilica at ancient Aila, founded in the late third or early fourth century and abandoned after the AD 363 earthquake, is among the earliest excavated buildings apparently designed from the outset for Christian assembly.
At Zadar, Christians reused the Roman forum’s northern edge for a fourth- to sixth-century cathedral complex with catechumeneion, mosaics, episcopal residence, and a hexagonal baptistery.
Multi-level Jewish catacombs at Venosa preserve roughly eighty Greek, Latin, and Hebrew epitaphs, menorahs, family ties, and synagogue offices, revealing a confident late antique community in southern Italy.
Codex Angelicus (GA 020) is a distinct physical witness to the material transmission and reception of Scripture, identified by its own shelfmark, date, contents, and custodial history.
A Latin pavement inscription near Corinth's theater says that an Erastus paved the area at his own expense in return for the aedileship; whether he was Paul's city official remains a valuable but unresolved question.
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.
Excavation identifies the standing Mor Yakup building as the early fourth-century baptistery of a lost cathedral and episcopal complex in strategically important Nisibis.
Ravenna's fifth-century cathedral baptistery preserves its octagonal shell, marble, stucco, font elements, and a dome program centered on Christ's baptism, the apostles, and the heavenly city, making initiation theology visible in an exceptionally complete late-antique interior.
The synagogue at Rome’s port preserves a long-lived Jewish worship complex whose earliest phases reach into the first centuries of the Roman Empire.
A fourth-century Greek papyrus from Oxyrhynchus preserves portions of Didache 1–3, including teaching about the Two Ways, love of enemies, almsgiving, and moral discipline. It is an early material witness to Christian instruction, not a manuscript of the New Testament.
A room above an older cult chamber in the fourth-century Lullingstone villa carried Chi-Rho monograms and praying figures, providing Roman Britain's clearest archaeological example of Christian worship established within an elite household complex.
Uncial 049: Acts and Epistles at Great Lavra is the independently registered Greek New Testament witness GA 049, controlled by its manuscript number, present shelfmark, physical form, and surviving biblical contents.
A large underground Jewish cemetery in Rome with inscriptions, menorahs, and communal burial evidence. Materially documents the established Jewish communities of Rome that form the social background to Acts 28 and Paul's letter to Roman believers.