Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Amh. Gr. 1 3 a |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) (?) |
Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro col. 1 ll. 1-11 + col. 2 ll. 12-36 + col. 3 ll. 37-62: Letter Re-use: 2. Ro above col. 2, ll. 1-3: Letter to the Hebrews 1.1. Perhaps applied amulet for healing/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. | 250 – 285 |
Date notes: | Grenfell & Hunt (1900: p. 28); letter to Hebrews: 251-350 CE (Grenfell & Hunt 1900: p. 30). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/manuscripts/350198v_0003.jpg |
Form: | Roll |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 20.9 | Width: 23.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Grenfell & Hunt (1900: p. 28); Jaroš (2014: p. 761). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Incomplete and damaged. Sheet cut from a roll. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 4 columns recto (→) and 1 column verso (↓). |
Hand: | Hand 1: Round, upright, semi-uncial |
Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: ) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Rome (TM places ID: 332) |
Present Location: | New York, Pierpont Morgan Library |
Collection History: | Found 1897 in the Fayum, purchased for William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (Jaroš 2014: p. 761). Sold to J. Pierpont Morgan in 1912 (coll. website 14/7/2021, Musurillo 1956: p. 124). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 250 |
Collection website: | https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/350198 |
Notes/Discussion: | Grenfell & Hunt (1900: p. 30) consider 2 to be from a later hand than 3 and separated the contents of P. Amh. 3 into 3 parts. Musurillo (1956: p. 125) and Aland (1976: p. 111) agree. von Harnack (1900: p. 993) thinks that 3b might be a contemporary hand to 3a. Wikipedia: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Comfort, Philip W., and David P. Barret. The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts. Michigan: Baker Publishing Group, 1999, p. 72. |
Translations: | Guyot, Peter, and Richard Klein. Das frühe Christentum bis zum Ende der Verfolgungen: Eine Dokumentation. Vol. 2. Die Christen in der heidnischen Gesellschaft. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1994, p. 44-46. (German) |
General: | Aland, Kurt. “Das Johannesevangelium auf Papyrus: Zum neu veröffentlichten Papyrus Bodmer II.” Forschungen Und Fortschritte 31 (1957): 50-55. |
Trismegistos ID: | 62312 |
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 | 536 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 155 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (25/10/2019); ST (25/5/2021); ST (2/6/2021); ST (16/6/2021); KD (14/7/2021) |