Papyrus 12

[2] On the verso of this manuscript another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to the Greek Septuagint.

[1] It has an error of itacism (παλε instead of παλαι, palai, meaning "long ago, formerly"), and includes the nomen sacrum ΘΣ for Theos, "God".

Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.

[3] It supports the textual variant ημων (hēmōn, "our") as in codices 𝔓46c a t v vgmss syrp.

[4] The manuscript was discovered in 1897 by papyrologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in the Fayum, Egypt.

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