Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | SM 46 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll.1-27: Applied love spell for Posidonios, son of Thsenoubasthis, against Heronous, daughter of Ptolemais. |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Metal (lead) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16 | Width: 22 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Daniel and Maltolmini 1990: p. 174. |
Folding pattern: | 6 (?) horizontal creases, 2 (?) vertical creases. |
State of preservation: | Complete, some damage to upper part. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 27 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Haueris (Hawara), Egypt (TM places ID: 747) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Haueris (Hawara), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 747) |
Present Location: | Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
Collection History: | Excavated by sebakhin at Hawara (Edgar 1925). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 73 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Text parallel to PGM IV.296-202 (M3, T2378). Two small holes about 1 cm apart between ll. 11-12, and a similar pair in middle of l. 19, perhaps indicaing piercing with a nail (Daniel and Maltolmini 1990: p. 174). Two figurines are displayed with the piece in the Egyptian Museum, but they were not found with it (Edgar 1925: p. 42). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Bilabel, Friedrich. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten IV (SB IV). Heidelberg, 1931, no. 7452. |
Translations: | |
General: | Cauderlier, Patrice. “Tablettes grecques.” In Les Tablettes à écrire de l’Antiquité à l’Époque moderne. Actes du colloque international du CNRS, Paris, Institut de France, 10-11 octobre 1990, organisé par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des textes sous la présidence de son directeur L. Holtz et par l’Institut de Papyrologie de la Sorbonne sous la présidence de son directeur A. Blanchard (Bibliologia 12). Brepols: Turnhout, 1992, p. 93, no. 306. |
Trismegistos ID: | 8723 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | 46 |
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 | 322 |
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Edit History: | KD (25/10/2019); MPS (5/12/2020); KD (22/2/2022) |