History
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 3rd century.
It was purchased at Cairo in 1950 by Leland C. Wyman, a professor of biology at Boston University. Later part of it was bought by Martin Schøyen and now part of it is housed in the Martin Schøyen Collection in Oslo, and part in London.
The text was published by William Hatch in the Harvard Theological Review in 1952.
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