Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM CXXIX |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | Original use: Ro: Documentary text (II CE; unpublished). Re-use: Vo ll.1-7: Instructions for creation of amulet (healing/protection). |
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 – 300 |
Date notes: | Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 163); GEMF |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published |
Image: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_21260_V_001.jpg |
Form: | Sheet (?) |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 5 | Width: 8.2 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | SM II p. 163. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary, broken on all sides except the bottom. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | Re-use one column verso; original use one column recto. |
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: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 40 |
Collection website: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/04453/ |
Notes/Discussion: | Cedopal (http://cipl93.philo.ulg.ac.be/Cedopal/MP3/MertensPack.aspx?numnot=06054.000) says it comes from 5th/6th century Fustat, but this seems to be a reference to a different manuscript. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990-1992, p. 163-165, no. 81. |
Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 323, no. 81. |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 69045 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | 129 |
SM: Supplementum Magicum | 81 |
GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | 37 | 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 | 6054 |
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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 (16/5/2019); KD (24/9/2020) |