Fragment of Papyrus with text in Arabic and Psalm 141

Official text in Arabic (recto); LXX, Psalm. 141, 2-6 (verso), Antinoe (Middle Egypt), late 7th c. AD (recto), early 8th century AD (verso)

Fragment of a papyrus sheet recovered during the excavation campaign of 1936-1937, conducted by Evaristo Breccia on behalf of the "G. Vitelli" on the site of Antinoe, which presents on the recto a mutilated text, written in Cufic script (of which this is one of the oldest examples), and on verso Psalm 141 in the Greek version of the LXX, a direct testimony of survival in Egypt of the Greek language after the Arab-Muslim conquest of the mid-seventh century AD

Location: Firenze - Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli", PSI inv. 2490