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PGM V |
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Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. pp. 1-2, ll. 40-52: The Oracle of Sarapis (divination) |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: ![]() |
301 – 400 |
Date notes: | GEMF; Preisendanz (1928: p. 180); TM (14/7/2020) |
Archive/collection: ![]() |
KYP A1 |
Archive name: | Theban Magical Library |
State of edition: | Published. New edition in progress by Korshi Dosoo as part of the GEMF project. |
Image: | http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=papyrus_46_f001r# |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 28.4 | Width: 12.3 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | GEMF (forthcoming). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete with some damage, broken in the middle. Two (probably blank) pages missing at the end. |
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16 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | Single-quire codex, 16 original pages, 489 lines. 14 pages written, 2 presumably blank pages lost at the end. Column width from GEMF (forthcoming). |
Hand: | Uncial |
Findspot: | Dios Polis, Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 576) |
Place of purchase: | Dios Polis, Thebes, Egypt (TM places ID: 576) |
Writingspot: | Dios Polis, Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 576) |
Present Location: | London, British Library |
Collection History: | Purchased by the British Museum in 1839 as part of a a lot sold by Jean d’Anastasy, consul-general of Sweden and Norway. It is no. 46 in the catalogue of the sale (British Museum, Department of |
Trismegistos collection: ![]() |
192 |
Collection website: | http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_46 |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol 1. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1928, p. 180-199, no. 5. |
Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 101-110, no. 5. |
General: | Dosoo, Korshi. “A History of the Theban Magical Library.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (2016): 251-274. |
Trismegistos ID: | 64368 |
PAThs: |
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5 |
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58 | ACM: ![]() |
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01866.000 |
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Edit History: | MPS (26/11/2018); ST (14/7/2020); KD (15/7/2020); KD (11/9/2020) |