Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM Christian 15b |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied ?) |
Contents: | Original use: Protocol (?) Re-use: 1. Ro ll. 1-10: Prayer for protection against headless dog for a woman. |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | No dimensions given in available sources. |
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, 10 lines. Perhaps written on the back of a protocol (Zellmann-Rohrer 2020: 64-65). |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | London, University College, Petrie Museum |
Collection History: | Likely belonged to the private collection of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831-1892), assembled with the help of William Flinders Petrie. Published after Edward’s death, likely while James Quibell helped Petrie sort through her collection. It has subsequently been lost; Trismegistos (29/9/2021) lists it as being held in the Petrie Museum, but it cannot be found among the catalogued objects (Zellmann-Rohrer 2020: p. 64). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 201 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | ACM suggests comparison to Psalm 22.20. Found with a few leaves of trefoil (clover) wrapped wthin the papyrus (Quibell 1893). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Leclercq, Henri. “Amulettes.” In Dictionnaire de l’Archeologie chrétienne et de Liturgie. Vol. 1.2., edited by Fernand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq, Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané, 1907, col. 1840. |
Translations: | Frankfurter, David. “The Threat of Headless Beings: Constructing the Demonic in Christian Egypt,” in Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: ‘Small Gods’ at the Margins of Christendom, edited by Michael Ostling. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, p. 57-78. |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 64884 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | Christian 15b |
SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 24 |
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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 | 767 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 33 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | MPS (26/2/2019); MPS (16/9/2020); KD (29/9/2021); JS (03/11/21) |