Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM Christian 8a |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Oracle ticket |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-5 – Vo ll. 1: Oracle ticket asking God and St. Philoxenos about banking involvement |
| 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: | TM (13/1/2019); Grenfell, Hunt 1924: p. 206; Youtie 1975: p. 253. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A61 |
| Archive name: | Philoxenos Oracle Tickets |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 7.1 | Width: 16.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Grenfell, Hunt 1924: p. 206. |
| 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.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 5 lines; 1 column verso, 1 line. |
| Hand: | Same hand as Harris 54 (ID 448) . See Youtie 1975: p. 256. |
| Findspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1524) |
| Present Location: | Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms |
| Collection History: | Originally one papyrus with P. Harris 1 54 (TM 64994=M448), but already cut apart in antiquity (TM 28/9/2020). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
264 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | This is a negative phrasing of the same oracle, of which the positive phrasing parallel survives (oracle Harris 54). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Grenfell, Bernard P., Athur S. Hunt. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 16. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1924, p. 206, no. 1926. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 53, no. 32. |
| General: | Kocar, Alexander. “Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity.” In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, edited by AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 188, Leiden: Brill, 2018. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 69699 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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Christian 8a |
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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32 |
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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 |
963 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | MPS (13/1/2019); MPS (28/9/2020); TM number of P. Harris 1 54 corrected according to information from Elisabetta Falduto (5/5/2022) |