Sigla: ![]() |
PGM Christian 12 |
Category: ![]() |
Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-14: Amulet to protect against animal bite, by Severus of Antiochia. |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: ![]() |
601 – 725 |
Date notes: | TM (11/2/2019); Preisendanz 1931: p. 199 and Maltomini 2007: p. 168 state 6th or 7th century AD. |
Archive/collection: ![]() |
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Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published |
Image: | http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_571159&order=1&view=SINGLE |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 13.4 | Width: 19.6 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (11/2/2019);Maltomini 2007: p. 168 states 13.4 x 21 cm. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete; manuscript is in two fragments. Damaged, top middle section missing, as well as bottom. |
Pages/Columns: ![]() |
1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 14 lines. |
Hand: | Irregular script, tilts to the right (Römer 2009: p. 209). |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek |
Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
Trismegistos collection: ![]() |
357 |
Collection website: | http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00002479 |
Notes/Discussion: | Formerly interpreted as an amulet for the fixation of the uterus (Wessely), but recent interpretations conclude that it is an amulet against animal bite (see Maltomini 2007 and Römer 2009). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Maltomini, Franco. “Un ‘utero errante’ di troppo? PGM 12 Riconsiderato.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 160 (2007): 167–174. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 41, no. 17. |
General: | Froschauer, Harald, and Harrauer, Hermann. Emanzipation am Nil. Frauleben und Frauenrecht in den Papyri. Nilus 11. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2005, p. 89, no. 58. |
Trismegistos ID: | 65256 |
PAThs: |
PGM: ![]() |
Christian 12 |
SM: ![]() |
GEMF: ![]() |
ACM: ![]() |
17 |
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Van H: ![]() |
1001 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: ![]() |
29 |
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Edit History: | MPS (11/2/2019); MPS (28/9/2020) |