Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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BM EA 56469 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Inscribed in circle around crux ansata: “One god in heaven” around crux ansata; sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham on reverse. |
| 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. |
451 – 500 |
| Date notes: | Collection website (12/9/2019). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | http://cbd.mfab.hu/image/cbd_object/831/7806/normal.jpg |
| Form: | Gem |
| Material: | Stone (limonite) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 3.4 | Width: 3.1 | Depth: .6 |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (12/9/2019). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some damage to top. |
| 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): | Inscribed on both sides. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Thebes, Egypt (TM places ID: 2355) |
| Place of purchase: | Cyprus (TM places ID: 528) |
| Writingspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Donated by Henry Rider Haggard in 1887. Acquired in Cyprus, said to come frm Karnak. (col. website (25/3/2019). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
193 |
| Collection website: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-9940 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Michel, Simone. Die Magischen Gemmen im Britischen Museum. London: British Museum Press, 2001, p. 461. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874119 |
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 |
819 | 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 (25/3/2019); MPS (12/9/2019); ST (20/12/2020) |