Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Ant. 2 54 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) (?) |
Contents: | 1. p. 1 ll. 1-6 + p. 2 ll. 1-6 + p. 3 ll. 1-4: Gospel of Matthew 6.10-12 (Lord’s Prayer); perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection. |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 4 | Width: 2.6 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Barns & Zilliacus (1960: p. 6); Bammel (1961: p. 280); Cribiore (1996: p. 273). |
Folding pattern: | Folded in antiquity. |
State of preservation: | Sheet from a codex. 1 double leave left from originally 2 double pages (Cribiore 1996: p. 273). |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 4 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 4 pages, 3 written, last page blank. 16 lines total. |
Hand: | Evolving, sloping |
Findspot: | Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt (TM places ID: 2274) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt (TM places ID: 2274) |
Present Location: | Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms |
Collection History: | Found during excavations of John de Monins Johnson in Antinoopolis for the Egypt Exploration Society in 1913-1914. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 264 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Bammel, Ernst. “A New Text of The Lord’s Prayer.” The Expository Times 73 (1991): 54. |
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. 29. |
Trismegistos ID: | 64206 |
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 | 347 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 156 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (25/10/2019); ST (6/6/2021); ST (9/6/2021); ST (16/6/2021); KD (15/7/2021) |