Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM Christian 4 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro col. 1-5: Amulet against disease, contains gospel of Matthew 4.23-24 and with central image of a figure. |
| 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. |
501 – 600 |
| Date notes: | Hunt 1911: p. 10; TM (18/2/2019): 501-700. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/SS7730556_7730556_9255811 |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6 | Width: 11.1 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | See collection website (18/2/2019); Hunt 1911: p. 10. |
| Folding pattern: | 4 vertical and 2 horizontal creases. Small cuts made on corners of vertical folds, resulting in rhombus shape. |
| State of preservation: | Complete. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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5 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 5 columns recto, 71 lines in total, ca. 15-16 lines per line. |
| Hand: | Coptic uncial script (Jones 2015, p. 70). |
| Findspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1524) |
| Present Location: | Allentown, Muhlenberg College |
| Collection History: | Likely excavated in Oxyrhynchus by the Egypt Exploration Society. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
6 |
| Collection website: | https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/SS7730556_7730556_9255811 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Text creates shape of cross. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Hunt, Arthur S. The Oxyrhynchus papyri. Vol. 8. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1911, p. 10-11, no. 1077. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 33, no. 7. |
| General: | Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 247, ViP 206. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 61805 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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Christian 4 |
SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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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 |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
341 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
19 |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | MPS (18/2/2019); KD (26/4/2020); MPS (11/9/2020) |