Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM LVI |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (unclear) (?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll.1-8: Sequences of letters and names of god. |
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. | 640 – 800 |
Date notes: | Hand of the “Arabic period” (Arab. Zeit.).according to Preisendanz (1974: 184). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A71 |
Archive name: | Strasbourg Archive 3 |
State of edition: | Unpublished |
Image: |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 17 | Width: 11 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Preisendanz 1931: 184. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Split up into 4 pieces. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 8 lines recto. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale |
Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 322 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Preisendanz (1931, p: 184) notes that the papyrus was rolled, tied up and secured with a seal. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | |
Translations: | |
General: | Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1931, p. 184, no. 56. |
Trismegistos ID: | 89320 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | 56 |
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 | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (22/3/2019); ST (27/8/2020); KD (11/9/2020) |