Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Gascou 83 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Alchemical (recipe) (?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll.1-5: Recipe for producing perfume (?) |
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. | 351 – 400 |
Date notes: | Worp (2016: p. 473) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A65 |
Archive name: | Kellis Area A House 4 Archive |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: |
Form: | Box |
Material: | Wood |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16.4 | Width: 7.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Excavated in situ (Worp 2016: p. 435). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | The box is damaged , but the text is complete. |
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, 5 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Area A, House 4, Kellis, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt (TM places ID: 2762) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Area A, House 4, Kellis, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2762) |
Present Location: | Egypt, Kellis, excavations Dakleh Oasis Project |
Collection History: | Found in situ. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | |
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Notes/Discussion: | The text is preserved on the inside of the lower part of an oval box. |
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: Collège de France, 2016, p. 473-475, no. 83. |
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Trismegistos ID: | 702583 |
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); KD (15/12/2020); MPS (26/3/2021) |