Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Berlin P. 12236 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Astrological (?) |
| Contents: | Ro ll. 1-9: Names of constellations (?). |
| Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 10.8 | Width: 10 | Depth: 1.2 |
| Dimensions (notes): | Beltz (1985): p. 40. |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, only the left-hand part of the text is preserved. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 9 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Elephantine (Geziret Assuan), Egypt (TM places ID: 621) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Elephantine (Geziret Assuan), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 621) |
| Present Location: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
| Collection History: | From the excavations of Rubensohn in Elephantine in 1907 (Beltz 1985: p.40) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
40 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | The manuscript is written on a clay plate. Beltz (1985: p. 40) suggests that the lost right-hand part of the text might have contained magical elements. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpapiere und Zauberostraka der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 31 (1985): p. 40, no. IV 1038. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 107337 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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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: |
| Edit History: | EL (12/10/2018); MPS (26/8/2019) |