Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Duk. inv. 751 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro ll. 1-14: Ritual with invocation of a deity whose city is Memphis (Ptah?); perhaps favour spell. Re-use: 2. Vo ll. 1-12: Unclear. |
| 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. |
101 – 200 |
| Date notes: | Dated based on the hand (Zellmann-Rohrer 2021: p. 24). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://library.duke.edu/papyrus/images/150dpi/751r-at150.gif |
| Form: | Sheet (?) |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 11.5 | Width: 6.4 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Zellmann-Rohrer 2021: p. 26. |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, upper margin preserved. Unclear if there were other columns. |
| 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): | 1 column verso (→), 14 surviving lines, magical use. 1 column verso (↓), re-use, approximately 12 suriving lines. |
| Hand: | Different hands recto and verso. |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Durham (NC), Duke University |
| Collection History: | Purchased by the Swedish antiquities dealer Erik von Scherling (1907-1956) and offered by him for sale in 1948/1949. Subsequently acquired by David Moore Robinson, then William H. Willis, who donated them to Duke University (Zellmann-Rohrer 2021: 23-24). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
121 |
| Collection website: | https://library.duke.edu/papyrus/records/751r.html |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “‘Your City is Memphis’: A Magical Formulary with a Prose Hymn”, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 58 (2021), p. 23-31. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | von Scherling, Eric. Rotulus: A Bulletin for Manuscript-Collectors 5 (1949), p. 35, no. 2189. |
| 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 (15/2/2022) |