The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 13:55-56 and 14:3-5: they are in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically to the late 2nd or early 3rd century.
Probably together with Papyrus 77 it belonged to the same codex.[1]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. According to Comfort it is proto-Alexandrian text.[1]
In Matthew 13:55, the name of Jesus' second brother reads [...]ης so that either Ἰωάννης (John) and Ἰωσῆς (Joses) are possible original readings.
^ abPhilip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography and Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 73.
^"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
Further reading
J. David Thomas, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXIV (London: 1997), pp. 5–7.
Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 641–644. ISBN978-0-8423-5265-9.
External links
Images
P.Oxy.LXIV 4403 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"