Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM CXXVI |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-22: Separation spell using mustard (curse) |
| 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. |
401 – 500 |
| Date notes: | 5th century (Daniel/Maltomini 1992: p. 222). Second half of fifth century (TM 26/10/2020); |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | http://www.psi-online.it/documents/plaur;4;148/ |
| Form: | Codex (?) |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 24.3 | Width: 21.3 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 222); Collection website (26/10/2020) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary. |
| 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): | 1 column each, recto and verso. 22 lines recto (→), 16 lines verso (↓). On side recto, remains of a column damaged at top and right; left margin at least 2.6 cm, right margin at least 3.5 cm (line 17), original lower margin 1.2 cm. On verso, the column is damaged at left, top and right; original lower margin 1.2 cm. On recto (→) original length of line was some 15 cm (cf. line 17) containing about 27 letters (cf. the securely restored line 15). |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana PL III 472 |
| Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
128 |
| Collection website: | http://www.psi-online.it/documents/plaur;4;148 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Sheet possibly from a codex (Daniel/Maltomini 1992: p. 222). Daniel & Maltomini (1992: p. 222) note that the true order of the two sides cannot be determined. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | ★ Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 222-230, no. 95. |
| Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 322, no. 126 a-b. |
| General: | Love, Edward O.D. “Bilingualism and Mono-/Bigraphia at the Nexus of Magical Traditions: From Egyptian-Greek to Coptic-Arabic Magical Texts”, in Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt, edited by Lajos Berkes. Ann Arbor: American Society of Papyrologists, 2002, p. 174-175. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 64731 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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126 |
SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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95 |
GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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81 | 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)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: | 5 |
| Edit History: | MPS (19/11/2018) (26/11/2018); KD (23/4/2020); ST (14/5/2020); ST (16/5/2020); KD (18/5/2020); ST (27/6/2020); EL (29/7/2020); KD (15/10/2021); KD (21/3/2022) |