Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Paris, Louvre M.N.D. 552 b |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) (?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-2: Matthew 6.9, includes Lord’s Prayer, applied amulet for 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. | 601 – 700 |
Date notes: | Passoni dell’Acqua (1980: p. 107). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010253858 |
Form: | Tablet |
Material: | Wood |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 1.8 | Width: 15.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Passoni dell’Acqua (1980: p. 107). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete with some damage. |
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. 2 lines recto, 1 line verso. |
Hand: | 2 different hands; Recto: Inexperienced |
Findspot: | Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt (TM places ID: 2774) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt (TM places ID: 2774) |
Present Location: | Paris, Louvre |
Collection History: | Found in the excavations of Albert J. Gayet, gifted to the Louvre in 1902 (col. website 28/5/2021). |
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/cl010253858 |
Notes/Discussion: | Passoni dell’Acqua (1980: p. 107) states that the hole in the wood made before writing might suggest that it was used as an amulet. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Passoni dell’Acqua, Anna. “Frammenti inediti del Vangelo secondo Matteo.” Aegyptus: Rivistia Italiana di Egittologia e di Papirologia 60 (1980): 107-109. |
Translations: | |
General: | Cauderlier, Patrice. “Les tablettes grecques d’Égypte: inventaire.” Bibliologia 12 (1992): p. 86 no. 218. [non vidi] |
Trismegistos ID: | 65348 |
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 | 349 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 134 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | ST (17/4/2021); KD (15/6/2021) |