Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | SB 1 5620 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Reverse ll. 1-13, edge, obverse: Applied amulet for the protection of Ammonios with a hymn to the god Mios. |
Form: | Gem |
Material: | Stone (jasper) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 2.6 | Width: 1.9 | Depth: 0.2 |
Dimensions (notes): | Bernand (1900: p. 87); Herbert (1972: p. 49). |
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. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each obverse, edge and reverse. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Saqqara, Memphis, Egypt (TM places ID: 1344) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Saqqara, Memphis, Egypt (TM places ID: 1344) |
Present Location: | Brooklyn Museum, New York |
Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 244 |
Collection website: | https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/118275 |
Notes/Discussion: | Object is apparently absent from the Campbell Bonner database. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Bonner, Campbell. Studies in Magical Amulets: Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950, p. 183-185, no. 283. |
Translations: | Bernand, Étienne. “Le culte du lion en Basse Égypte d’après les documents grecs.” Diologues d’Histoire Ancienne 16.1 (1900): 87-91, no. 10. (French) |
General: | Chaniotis, Angelos, Thomas Corsten, Ronald S. Stroud, and R. A. Tybout. “SEG 56-1994. Memphis (area of Saqqarah). Magic amulet, Roman Imperial period.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 56 (SEG 56), edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Thomas Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, and E. Stavrianopoulou, 2006, no. 1994 (SEG 56 1994). |
Trismegistos ID: | 98559 |
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 | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (25/4/2019); ST (20/7/2021); KD (8/10/2021) |