Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Oxy. XVI 1928 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro ll. 1-5: Protocol Re-use: 2. Vo ll. 1-16: Psalm LXX 90.1-16, incipits of gospels of John, Luke, Mark, and Matthew 1; applied amulet for protection |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Geek |
Dialect: | |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 533 – 600 |
Date notes: | Text on recto is a protocol dated: 5/10/533 CE: Rupprecht (2001: p. 257). Verso dated palaeographically to 5th or early 6th century CE: Grenfell, Hunt & Bell (1924: p. 208). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | http://163.1.169.40/gsdl/collect/POxy/index/assoc/HASH0158.dir/POxy.v0016.n1928.a.01.hires.jpg |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 30 | Width: 215 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Grenfell, Hunt & Bell (1924: p. 208). |
Folding pattern: | 7 (?) horizontal, 12 (?) vertical creases. |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto (→) and verso (↓). 5 lines recto, 16 lines verso. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
Present Location: | Oxford, Sackler Library |
Collection History: | Found in situ by the Egypt Exploration Fund. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 264 |
Collection website: | http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=q-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-1928--00011-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=search&d=HASH01581b583329299692cd9edf |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Diethart, Johannes, Dennis Feissel, and Jean Gascou. “Les prôtokolla des papyrus byzantins du ve au VIIe siècle. Édition, prosopographie, diplomatique.” Tyche 9 (1994): 19-23, no. 18. |
Translations: | |
General: | Aland, Kurt (ed.). Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri: 1. Biblische Papyri: Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1976, no. 14. |
Trismegistos ID: | 22050 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | 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 | 183 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 119 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | ST (29/3/2021); KD (18/5/2021) |