Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM XXXIV |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Literary (novel) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-24 (Mich.) + Palau-Ribes fr. A-E: Fragment of Antonius Diogenes’ “The Wonders Beyond Thule”, describing the magical power of love. |
| 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. |
101 – 300 |
| Date notes: | |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/image/apis/X-2369/5R.TIF/full/large/0/native.jpg |
| Form: | Roll |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16.2 | Width: 17 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Dimensions are minimum. Michigan fragment is 16.2 (H) x 8.5 (W) cm (Stephens and Winkler 1995: p. 175). Dimensions of Palau-Ribes fragments (H x W): A: 5 x 7.5, B: 3.5 x 7.5, C: 2.3 x 6.5, D: 1.5 x 7.5, E: 1.5 x 1.5 (Lopez Martinez 1993: p. 304). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, 1 surviving column on Michigan fragment; left and right margins of column preserved. Palau Ribes part consists of five fragments, each containing the remains of one column. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | Michigan P. 5: 1 surviving column recto (→), 24 surviving lines. Palau-Ribes fragments each contain one column recto (→), with 13 (fr. A), 11 (fr. B), 9 (fr. C), 11 (fr. D), and 3 lines (fr. E). |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 332) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 332) |
| Present Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
| Collection History: | Purchased in 1905 by Michigan (Preisendanz 1974: p. 159). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
12304 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Bonner, Campbell. “A Papyrus Describing Magical Powers,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 52 (1921): 111-118. |
| Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 267-268, no. 34. |
| General: | Reyhl, K. Antonios Diogenes: Untersuchungen zu den Roman-Fragmenten der ‘Wunder jenseits von Thule’ und zu den ‘Wahren Geschichten’ des Lukian. Doctoral Thesis, Tübingen, 1969, p. 14-20. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 63855 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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34 |
SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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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 |
2636 |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | KD (9/3/2019); KD (27/10/2020) |