Codex 0308 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is one of the recently registered New Testament Greek uncial manuscripts. It consists of only a fragment of a single parchment leaf of a fourth-century codex, containing portions of the eleventh chapter of the Book of Revelation.
The surviving texts of Revelation are verses 11:15-16 and 11:17-18; they are in fragmentary condition. Uncial 0308 measures with the surviving leaf having 11 lines out of an original 14 (see reconstruction below). The text was written one column to a page, though line lengths were irregular. The letters Ε (epsilon) and Θ (theta) have an extended middle line, and they are similar to those from Codex Washingtonianus. These characters appear influenced by the shape of Coptic letters. The nomina sacra attested in this uncial fragment are
ΚΣ (Kurios, Lord) and ΧΡΣ) (Christos, Christ). The number "twenty four" is also written using an abbreviation — ΚΔ. All the abbreviations are marked with the superscript bar.| Uncial 0308 recto | Translation | |
| η βασιλει | The kingdom of the wor- | |
| ου του ΚΥ ημ | ld belongs to our Lord and | |
| υ ΧΡΥ αυτο | his Christ, and he shall rei- | |
| ευσει εις το | gn for ev- | |
| νας των αι | er and ever | |
| και οι ΚΔ πρ | and the 24 elders who | |
| ενωπιον | sit before God | |
| θημεν | on their thro- | |
| νους | nes fell | |
| επι | on their faces | |
| ω | and worshipped | |
| God, saying, we | ||
| ριστουμεν σοι ΚΕ ο | give thanks to thee Lord | |
| ΘΣ ο παντοκρατορ | God Almighty |
| Uncial 0308 verso | Translation | |
| ι ο ην και | who art and who wast | |
| ας την δυν | that thou hast taken thy power | |
| την μεγαλη | great and | |
| σιλευσας κ | begun to reign | |
| η ωργισθησα | The nations raged | |
| ν η οργη σο | but thy wrath came | |
| ς των νε | and the time for the | |
| ηναι και | dead to be judged | |
| σθον | for rewarding | |
| υ και | thy servants and | |
| αι | the prophets | |
| and saints | ||
| and those who fear | ||
| thy name |
Although the text of the codex is too brief to determine its textual character, it concurs with both Codex Sinaiticus and with 47 (Papyrus 47), with one exception. In Rev 11:16 it has the textual variant Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κα]θημενο[ι, agreeing with Codex Alexandrinus, Uncial 051 and
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It is cataloged among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri as P. Oxy. 4500, and is now part of the Sackler Library collection in Oxford.[3]