Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM Christian 16 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied ?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-28: Curse with judicial features against Theodosius. |
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. | 301 – 400 |
Date notes: | TM (26/2/2019); Preisendanz 1974: p. 225 |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. New edition desirable. |
Image: | http://papyri.info/apis/hermitage.apis.21/images |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16 | Width: 8.8 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Preisendanz 1974: p. 225. |
Folding pattern: | 2 vertical creases, multiple horizontal creases (?) |
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 (→), 28 lines. |
Hand: | Bad cursive writing with copticisms (PGM 1931, p. 205). |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum |
Collection History: | Acquired by Bock in Egypt in 1897. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 316 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Folded in antiquity (TM 28/9/2020) |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Björc, Gudmund. Der Fluch des Christen Sabinus. Papyrus Upsaliensis 8. Upsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1938, p. 46, no. 24. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 50-51, no. 27. |
General: | http://papyri.info/apis/hermitage.apis.21 |
Trismegistos ID: | 64513 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | Christian 16 |
SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 27 |
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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 | 971 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 35 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | MPS (26/2/2019); MPS (28/9/2020) |