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Papyrus 2 𝔓²
New Testament Manuscript

Text	John 12:12-15; Luke 7:22-26,50
Date	c. 550
Found	Egypt
Now at	Museo Archeologico, Florence, Inv. Nr. 7134
Cite	E. Pistelli, ‘Papiri evangelici’, Rivista di Studi Religiosi 6 (1902): 69-70.
Size	fragment
Type	mixed
Category	III

Papyrus 2 (P²) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek and Coptic. It is a papyrus fragment of a copy of the Gospel of John dating to the sixth century. It is currently housed at the Egyptian Museum, Florence (Inv. no. 7134).^[1] There is a portion of Luke 7:22-26.50 in Coptic on the reverse of the fragment.

The fragment appears to be from a lectionary.^[2] The text type is a mixed.^[3] Aland placed it in Category III.^[4]

Name of city ιεροσολυμα (Jerusalem) is given in variation ιερου[σο]λ̣υ̣[μα].

Ermenegildo Pistelli dated the manuscript to the 5th or 6th century; Ernst von Dobschütz to the 6th or 7th century.^[5]