Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Berlin P. 6096 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-23: Amulet to protect body, including Psalm 90:1; John 1:1-2; Matthew 1:1; Mark 1:1; Luke 1:1; Psalm 117:6-7; Psalm 17:3; Matthew 4:23 |
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 – 700 |
Date notes: | TM (1/10/2018) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published |
Image: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_06096_S1_001.jpg |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 13.6 | Width: 8.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Jones 2015: p. 73. |
Folding pattern: | 10 (?) horizontal creases. |
State of preservation: | Complete. Parchment somewhat damaged and faded. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 23 lines recto. |
Hand: | Swift hangwriting, inclined to the right (Jones 2015, p. 74). |
Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Place of purchase: | Kom Fâris (TM places ID: 327) |
Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Present Location: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
Collection History: | Purchased through Stadler in Kom Fâris 1887. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 40 |
Collection website: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/01656/ |
Notes/Discussion: | Every citation preceded by a cross. ACM gives this the inventory number Berlin 9096 by mistake |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Jones, Brice C. “New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity and Their Relevance for Textual Criticism.” PhD thesis, Concordia University, 2015, p. 73-78, no. 2 |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 34-35, no. 9. |
General: | Rahlfs, Alfred, and Detlef Fraenkel Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen aufgestellt. Die Überlieferung biz zum VIII. Jahrhundert. Vol. 1.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 21, no. 2131. |
Trismegistos ID: | 64853 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 9 |
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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 | 731 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 4 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | MPS (5/4/2019); KD (16/10/2020) |