An explanation of the origin of the text can be found
here, at the bottom of the page. It is said:
"
The archeologists Sir Henry Austen Layard and
Hormuzd Rassam discovered the Ashurbanipal
Library intact in Nineveh and crated the 50,000
tablets to the British Museum in London. They are
the pride of the British Museum, together with the
oldest Ancient Aramaic New Testament which
dates back to the 4th Century AD. "
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