Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Berol. 17202 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. p. 1 ll. 1-12: Exorcism for those troubled by evil demons. |
| 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. |
351 – 450 |
| Date notes: | GEMF dating (11/7/2019); 301-400 (TM 8/4/2019); fourth century according to Brashear & Kotansky (2002: p. 3.) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. Re-edition in progress by A. Mihálykó. |
| Image: | http://dfg-viewer.de/show/?set%5Bimage%5D=2&set%5Bmets%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fberlpap.smb.museum%2F04194%2F?xml=tei |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 24.1 | Width: 19 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Brashear & Kotansky (2002: p. 3). |
| Folding pattern: | No clearly visible folds. |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary (sheet of a codex), although recipes preserved (complete). |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 2 surviving pages. 22 lines recto, 19 lines verso. |
| Hand: | Documentary hand of 4th century CE (Brashear and Kotansky 2002, p. 6). |
| Findspot: | Busiris, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Busiris, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
| Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
40 |
| Collection website: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/04194/ |
| Notes/Discussion: | Written by a single hand, although apparently on different occasions, as details such as thickness of pen and ink differ. It was suggested by Breashear and Kotansky (2002) that the scribe copied the recipes from different texts. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Brashear, William M., and Roy Kotansky. “A New Magical Formulary.” In Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 141), edited by Paul Mirecki and Marvin Meyer. Leiden – Boston – Köln: Brill, 2002, 3–24. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Jordan, David. “Phallus or Fleas at ‘PBerol’ Inv. 17202.31?” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 141 (2002): 139–141 (only the erection spell, ll. 31-33). |
| Trismegistos ID: | 68620 |
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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77 | 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)" |
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TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | MPS (15/11/2018); MPS (16/11/2018); MPS (19/11/2018); KD (6/6/2019); MPS (9/7/2019); ST (16/12/2020); KD (9/2/2021); KD (11/5/2022) |