Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | SM 47 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-28: Applied love spell to make Ptolemais, daughter of Horigenes love Sarapammon, son of Area. |
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: | Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 179). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010044394 |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Metal (lead) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 11 | Width: 11 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Daniel & Maltomini (1990: p. 179). |
Folding pattern: | Numerous horizontal creases. |
State of preservation: | Complete, with some damage. Hole in lead between lines 22 and 23. |
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, 28 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Middle Egypt, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2800) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Middle Egypt, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2800) |
Present Location: | Paris, Louvre |
Collection History: | Purchased by the Louvre from Dimitrios Alkis Mathéos in 6/3/1975 (coll. website 1/10/2021). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 274 |
Collection website: | https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010044394 |
Notes/Discussion: | Found with nude female clay figure in kneeling position bound and pierced with 13 pins in an earthenware pot. Textual and ritual parallel to PGM IV.296-328 (T2378). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | ★ Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 179-183, no. 47. |
Translations: | |
General: | Cauderlier, Patrice. “Les tablettes grecques d’Égypte: Inventaire.” Bibliologia 12 (1992): p. 93, no. 302. |
Trismegistos ID: | 92866 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | 47 |
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 | 110 |
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Edit History: | KD (25/10/2019); ST (5/12/2020); MPS (7/12/2020); EL (8/12/2020); KD (9/12/2020); KD (1/10/2021) |