Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM Christian 3 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-12: Amulet calling upon various powers including the Artemisian Scorpion for protection of the house from various evil forces. |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 301 – 500 |
Date notes: | TM (11/9/2020) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://ub-media.uio.no/OPES/jpg/303r.jpg |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 10 | Width: 16 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Preisendanz 1931, p. 190. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 12 lines. |
Hand: | Small uncial script. |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 2740) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Oslo, University Library |
Collection History: | Acquired in Cairo in 1920 by Eitrem (Preisendanz 1974: p. 210 and Tod 1939: p. 58). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 262 |
Collection website: | https://ub-baser.uio.no/opes/record/243 |
Notes/Discussion: | Does not seem to have been folded. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Bilabel, Friedrich. Sammelbuch Griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 3., no. 1. Berlin – Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter, 1926, p. 69, no. 6584. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 49-50, no. 26. |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 64592 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | Christian 3 |
SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 26 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | ||||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | 951 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 18 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | MPS (18/2/2019); MPS (11/9/2020); KD (16/12/2021) |