Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Louvre E 3239 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-23: Spell against serpents/snakes/biting things (ḏdft) on front |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Late Egyptian) |
| Script(s): | Hieratic |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
-1200 – -1150 |
| Date notes: | TM (25/1/2019) states 1070 BC-332 AD |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A75 |
| Archive name: | Louvre Hieratic Amulets |
| State of edition: | Published. New edition required. |
| Image: | http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=obj_view_obj&objet=cartel_19798_31560_e0023950.001.jpg_obj.html&flag=true |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 19.5 | Width: 7 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | See collection website (25/1/2019); Devéria (1881): p. 171 states ” common height 0,195.” No further explanation as to the size. |
| Folding pattern: | Previously rolled (see Devéria 1881: p. 171). |
| State of preservation: | Complete. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 23 lines recto (→), 1 line verso (↓). |
| Hand: | Hand similar to Leiden I 348. |
| Findspot: | (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355) |
| Present Location: | Paris, Louvre |
| Collection History: | Acquired during the “Vente Anastasi” in Paris, 1857, under number 1039, together with number 1037 (see Devéria 1881: p. 171). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
274 |
| Collection website: | http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=19798&langue=fr |
| Notes/Discussion: | Parallel inscribed on walls of part of the temple of Amun in Kharga oasis, in room O of the Osiris apartments; Brugsch, Reise nach der grossen Oase El Khargeh in der libyschen Wäste, pl. XVIII, p.57. All papyri from this sale were apparently from Thebes. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Chassinat, Émile. “Les papyrus magiques 3237 et 3239 du Louvre.” Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes 14 (1893): 10–17. |
| Translations: | Devéria, Théodule. Catalogue des manuscripts égyptiens au Musée Egyptien du Louvre. Paris: Charles de Mourgues Freres, 1881, p. 171-173, no. VIII, 1 [3239]. – Devéria reprinetd Chabas’s translation. |
| General: | Dosoo, Korshi. “A History of the Theban Magical Library.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (2016): 251-274. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 56822 |
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: | MPS (25/1/2019); KD (29/8/2024) |