Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Gascou 86 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied ?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-4: Applied amulet against fever (?). |
Language(s): | Greek (?) |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | |
Language/dialect notes: | No linguistic content survives. |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 301 – 350 |
Date notes: | Worp (2016: p. 479). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A66 |
Archive name: | Kellis Area A House 2 Archive |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: |
Form: | Sheet (?) |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 3.3 | Width: 9.7 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Worp (2016: p. 479). |
Folding pattern: | 4 vertical creases survive. |
State of preservation: | Likely complete, but with significant damage; only upper and right margins preserved. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto (↓), 4 surviving lines written transversa charta. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Area A, House 2, Kellis, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt (TM places ID: 2762) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Area A, House 2, Kellis, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2762) |
Present Location: | Egypt, Kellis, excavations Dakleh Oasis Project |
Collection History: | Excavated in situ (Worp 2016: p.435). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | |
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Notes/Discussion: | According to Worp (2016: p. 479) the text is parallel to SM I 3, a fever amulet (KYP M843). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Worp, Klaas A. “Miscellaneous new Greek papyri from Kellis (P.Gascou 67–88).” In: Mélanges Jean Gascou: Textes et Études Papyrologiques (P.Gascou), edited by Jean-Luc Fournet and Arietta Papaconstantinou. Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2016, p. 435-83, no. 86. |
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Trismegistos ID: | 702586 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
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 | ||||
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: | KD (9/4/2020); ST (2/9/2021); ST (15/11/2021); KD (18/11/2021) |