Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM XLIV |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-18: Love spell for a man to use on another man. Drawing of a figure. |
| 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. |
201 – 400 |
| Date notes: | Dating from Maltomini 2020: p. 134, and GEMF dating (11/7/2019). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published |
| Image: | https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_552421&order=1&view=SINGLE |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 12.1 | Width: 15.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Col. website (9/9/2020) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Considerable damage, but probably largely complete. Broken at top, bottom and right-hand margin. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | Text written in several formations, so difficult to fix number of columns; treated here as 1. Recto (→), 18 lines and a drawing. |
| Hand: | Rough, informal, slanting to the right |
| Findspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek |
| Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
357 |
| Collection website: | http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00002490 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Previously interpreted as a healing amulet, perhaps against fever or earache. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | ★ Maltomini, Franco. “22. Formulario Magico”. In E me l’ovrare appaga Papiri e saggi in onore di Gabriella Messeri (P.Messeri), edited by Guido Bastianini, Francesca Maltomini, Daniela Mane!i – Diletta Minutoli, Rosario Pintaudi. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2020, 134-140. |
| Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 281, no. 44. |
| General: | Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 248, ViP 216b. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 63040 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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44 |
SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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49 | 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 |
6046 |
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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 (18/3/2019); ST (25/8/2020); KD (9/9/2020); KD (11/2/2020); KD (11/2/2021) |