Sigla: ![]() |
PGM I |
Category: ![]() |
Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro col. 1 ll. 1-42: Paredric ritual involving falcon hesy (ritual for acquiring paredros, ritual of apparition) |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | |
Language/dialect notes: | Greek with small amount of Egyptian written in Greek script (whether Demotic or Coptic grammar is indistinguishable) |
Date: ![]() |
201 – 300 |
Date notes: | GEMF (11/7/2019), 301-500 (Preisendanz 1973: p. 1); 301-400 (TM 18/7/2020) |
Archive/collection: ![]() |
KYP A1 |
Archive name: | Theban Magical Library |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_05025-Pl-B_R_001.jpg |
Form: | Roll |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 33.5 | Width: 80.2 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary, section missing at the beginning. Roll is divided into 2 parts by a sharp cut after column 2. |
Pages/Columns: ![]() |
5 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 5 columns, recto (→). Column widths: 10.6 (col. 3), 11.4 (col. 4), 9 (col. 5) (measurements from photo by KD 7/6/2020) |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 576) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 576) |
Present Location: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
Collection History: | Acquired 1857 by Lepsius in Paris from auction of Jean d’Anastasy. One part of the roll was taken to Warsaw, probably ater having been removed from Berlin by Soviet Soviet soldiers after World War II and sold in Warsaw for supplies (Dosoo 2016). |
Trismegistos collection: ![]() |
40 |
Collection website: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/01590/ |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Chronopoulou, Eleni. Edition of the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) I and VI+II: Introductio, text and commentary. PhD Thesis Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017 https://repositori.upf.edu/handle/10230/33761?locale-attribute=en |
Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 3-12, no. 1. |
General: | Dosoo, Korshi. ‘A History of the Theban Magical Library.’ Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (2016): 251–274. |
Trismegistos ID: | 88396 |
PAThs: |
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1 |
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31 | ACM: ![]() |
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01863.000 |
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Edit History: | KD (12/3/2019); ST(18/7/2020); ST (21/7/2020); ST (22/7/2020); KD (4/8/2020); ST (9/8/2020); EL (21/8/2020); KD (5/10/2021) |