Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Museum of London inv. no. 941 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. ll. 1-30: Amulet invoking Iao and Phoebos for the protection of Demetrios against plague. |
| 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. |
165 – 200 |
| Date notes: | Last third of the second century according to Jones 2014. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/mol/mediaLib/174/897/vry_89_0_941.jpg |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Metal (pewter=tin/lead alloy) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 4.8 | Width: 1.3 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Dimensions in Tomlin 2014. 1.3 (W) by 5 (H) cm on collection website. |
| Folding pattern: | 1 vertical crease, multiple horizontal creases. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some damage. |
| 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, 30 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | London, Britain (TM places ID: ) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Present Location: | |
| Collection History: | Found in situ in London, now held in the Museum of London (Tomlin 2014). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
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| Collection website: | https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/423977.html |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Jones, Christopher P. “An Amulet from London and Events Surrounding the Antonine Plague”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 29 (2016): 469.472. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Perdrizet, Paul. “Une inscription d’Antioche qui reproduit un oracle d’Alexandre d’Abonotichos”, Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 47.1 (1903), 62-66. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 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: | KD (28/9/2021) |