Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Berol. inv. 21149 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. p. 1 ll. 1-6, p. 2 ll. 1-6, p. 3 ll. 1-5, p. 4 ll. 1-5: Healing text (?) invoking the Saints Kosmas and Damianos to go to the house of the sick person. |
| 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. |
501 – 600 |
| Date notes: | Treu (1968: p. 24); col. website (18/12/2020). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | http://dfg-viewer.de/show/?set%5Bimage%5D=2&set%5Bmets%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fberlpap.smb.museum%2F04358%2F?xml=tei |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6.2 | Width: 18.7 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Treu (1986: p. 24). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Incomplete; fragmentary. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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4 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 4 surviving pages. |
| Hand: | Thick majuscule script, slightly tilted to the right (Treu 1986: p. 25). |
| Findspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
| 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/04358/ |
| Notes/Discussion: | As noted by Treu (1968; p. 24) it would also be possible to interpret the remains as a single leaf of a two-column codex, but the width of the columns and the intercolumnium suggests that these are separate codex pages. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Ioannidou, H. Grace. Berliner Klassikertexte. Catalogue of Greek and Latin Literary Papyri in Berlin. Vol. 9. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 1996, no. 51. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 64974 |
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 |
06002.000 |
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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: | MPS (19/11/2018); ST (18/12/2020); KD (9/2/2021) |