Help with Dead Sea Scroll Reference?

[aferguson682]

Would someone help me understand this reference:

 

4Q504 f1_2Riv:13

 

I have read the article by Abegg about the DSS in accordance and it does not mention what the underscore or the R represent.

 

I know some texts have the reference verso and recto like 4Q82, possibly the R stands for recto?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Anthony 

 

 

 

[Graham Buck]

 

5. Current referencing schemes have been modified slightly to accommodate Accordance. Scrolls published by column are recorded in a column:line format. Thus “1QS 4:3” (or “1QS 4.3”) references the manuscript known as 1QS column 4, line 3. The more common fragmentary portions follow the pattern of fragment column: line. Thus “4Q427 f7ii:14” refers to manuscript 4Q427, fragment (f) 7, column 2, and line 14. Only the fragment number will show variation from this pattern as the characters + and _ are incorporated to show combinations of individual fragments. For example, “4Q491 f1_3:17” refers to an ensemble of fragments 1, 2, and 3.

 

https://accordance.bible/link/read/Read_Me-Modules#2958

 

So in this particular case:

 

4Q504 - cave 4, man. 504

f1_2R - a collocation of fragment 1 and Recto side of fragment 2

iv - column 4

13 - line 13

 

Also, I find the DSS Index module to be of supreme help. Clicking on the link to the Leon Levy Digital Library identified both recto and verso images of frag 2. https://accordance.bible/link/read/DSS_Index#5146

[MattChristianOT]

I almost always use Leon Levy with Dead Sea Scrolls work. The index in Accordance is the best with figuring out what all the sigma are actually doing. I commend Abegg for his work but nothing beats looking at the documents yourself. I have found some readings I would diverge from Abegg and others based on images of the text so it is helpful to look at the text itself when you can!