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TM 397677 / LDAB 397677 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/397677

also known as 3Q15; 3QCopScr; Copper Scroll; 3Q Copper Scroll

TM Gallery info The Copper Scroll (TM 397677) is the only Dead Sea scroll written on metal, in casu copper. It was excavated in 1952 in Qumran Cave 3 and sent to Manchester to be 'unrolled', i.e. cut in 23 strips to be read. Style, language and probably also later 1st century AD date are different from most Qumran material. The contents of the scroll are even more particular: rather than a literary text or contract, the text is an enumeration of places where different large treasures of gold and silver were buried.

Metadata

Date: mid 1st century AD: AD 25 - 75
DJD 39, p. 430

Provenance: Qumran, cave 1 - Palestine (PalestinaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - IudaeaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Palestina - Israel (PalestinaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - IudaeaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Hebrew

Material: metal (copper)

Completely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 16

Content (beta!): catalogue of treasures

Culture & genre: science — geography, catalogue (religion: jewish)

More info: Dead Sea ScrollsThe Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library => 1049 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

Puech, The copper scroll revisited (Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah 112) (Puech, Émile / Orton, David E. - 2015) [default]

∙Lefkovits, The copper scroll 3Q15: a reevaluation (Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah 25) (Lefkovitz, Judah K. - 2000)

∙Baillet e.a., Les petites grottes de Qumrân (Discoveries in the Judaean desert 3) p. 200-302 [3Q15] (Milik, Jozef Tadeusz - 1962)

Photo: DJD 3, pl. 48-71

Content studies: G.J. Brooke - P.R. Davies, Copper Scroll Studies, Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha, Supplement 40, 2002; J. Hogenhaven, The Cave 3 copper scroll (Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah 132), 2010

Script & book studies: D. Brizemeure, N. Lacoudre, E. Puech, Le rouleau de cuivre de la grotte 3 de Qumran, 2 voL;2006 [restauration and epigraphy]; D. Dlugosz, Revue de Qumran 22 (2005), p. 125-127

Collections

→ Amman, Department of Antiquities of Jordan number unknown

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    TM 397677

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