Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PCM 1 16 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ostraca 1-3, recto (ll. 1-40): Love spell using narrative charm consisting of story about Horus and Isis. |
| Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 22.5 | Width: 19 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | 3 ostraca; first 21.5 x 12 cm; second 22.5 x 19 cm; third 19.5 x 11 cm (Blumell and Dosoo 2018: p. 210, 212). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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3 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 3 ostraca each with 1 column on their convex faces, 40 lines in total. |
| Hand: | O. BYU Mag. Hand |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Provo, Brigham Young University |
| Collection History: | Donated by Aziz Atiya in 1980-1981 (Blumell and Dosoo 2018: p. 202-203). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
1760 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Blumell, Lincoln and Dosoo, Korshi. “Horus, Isis, and the Dark-Eyed Beauty: A Series of Magical Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection.” Archiv für Papyrusforchung 64 (2018): 199-259. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Hevesi, Krisztina. “A Few Remarks on the Persistence of Native Egyptian historiolae in Coptic Magical Texts.” In Current Research in Egyptology 2018: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 25-28 June 2018, edited by Marie Peterková Hlouchová, Dana Bělohoubková, Jiří Honzl and Věra Nováková. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019, p. 42-54. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 756246 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| 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 |
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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 (2/10/2018); EL (29/3/2019); MPS (4/7/2019); MPS (8/9/2020); MPS (25/3/2021); KD (14/9/2022); KD (20/11/2023) |