Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM Christian 9 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-30: Amulet against disease, evil eye, and demons for a man named Silouanus son of Sarapion. May be exorcism, asks for demon of witchcraft (δαίμονα προβασκανίας) to be driven from him. |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | No dimension given in any source except Jones 2015, p. 114, who states 2 x 1 cm when folded. |
Folding pattern: | Folded in antiquity and found folded, with a red/brown thread (Wilcken 1912: p. 159; Jones 2015: p. 114). |
State of preservation: | Complete, after unfolding damaged (Wilcken 1901: p. 431). |
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, 30 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina), Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 801) |
Present Location: | |
Collection History: | Found in Herakleopolis Magna on February 20th 1899 by Ulrich Wilken. Now lost; burned on 1899 in Hamburg (Jones 2015: p. 114). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | |
Collection website: | http://ww2.smb.museum/berlpap/index.php/00749/ |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Aland, Kurt. Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri. Biblische Papyri, Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Vol. 1. Patristische Texte und Studien 18. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1976, Var28. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 42, no. 18. |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 64990 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | Christian 9 |
SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 18 |
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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 | 6029 |
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Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | 720 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 26 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | MPS (12/2/2019); MPS (28/9/2020) |