Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Heid. Aeg. 761 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) (?) |
Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro: Illegible, perhaps earlier attempt at text. Re-use (palimpsest): 2. Ro ll. 1-12: Tablet containing the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6.9-13), perhaps an amulet to protect a building. |
Form: | Tablet |
Material: | Wood |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16.8 | Width: 11.8 | Depth: 0.8 |
Dimensions (notes): | Bilabel (1924: p. 49). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Cracked horizontally into two pieces, otherwise complete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto and verso. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Hipponon (Qarara), Egypt (TM places ID: ) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Hipponon (Qarara), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: ) |
Present Location: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
Collection History: | Found in a tomb in Qarara in 1914 (Kraus 2006: p. 250; Seider 1964: 156-7). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 156 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Two holes in upper part for suspension. Bilabel (1924: p. 51-52) understood this as an amulet. Kraus (2006) suggests this is a school text. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Bilabel, Friedrich. Griechische Papyri (Urkunden, Briefle, Schreibtafeln, Ostraka etc.) (P. Baden 4). Heidelberg: Selbstverlag, 1924, p. 49-52, no. 60. |
Translations: | |
General: | Kraus, Thomas J. “Manuscripts with the Lord’s Prayer: They are More than Simply Witnesses to that Text Itself.” In New Testament Manuscripts. Their Texts and their World, edited by Thomas J. Kraus – Tobias Nicklas. Leiden: Brill, 2006, p. 248-250, no. 16, figs. 7-8. |
Trismegistos ID: | 65415 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
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 | 346 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 157 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (17/9/2020); KD (29/9/2021); SVS (09/08/22) |