Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | GMA 5 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro col 1-4, vo ll. 1-5: Amulet with containing voces magicae and kharaktēr (protection). |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Metal (silver) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 0.5 | Width: 4.95 | Depth: 0.6 |
Dimensions (notes): | Fremersdorf (1937: p. 39); Grimm (1969: p. 172); Kotansky (1994: p. 22). |
Folding pattern: | 7-8 horizontal creases (?); Kotansky describes as having been rolled up 6-7 times. |
State of preservation: | Complete with some damage. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 6 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto 4 lines, 1 column verso, 5 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, Germany (Gallia) (TM places ID: 3258) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, Germany (Gallia) (?) (TM places ID: 3258) |
Present Location: | Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Köln |
Collection History: | Found in situ in 1929 at the Roman cemetery on the Jakobstraße in grave no. 148 (Kotansky 1994, 22). |
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Bibiliography |
Editions: | ★ Kotansky, Roy. Greek Magical Amulets. The Inscribed Gold, Silver, Copper, and Bronze Lamellae. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994, p. 22-23, no. 5. |
Translations: | |
General: | Grimm, Günter. Die Zeugnisse Ägyptischer Religion und Kunstelemente im Römischen Deutschland. Leiden: Brill, 1969, p. 172, no. 66. |
Trismegistos ID: | PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
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 | ||||
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 (13/9/2022); ST (17/10/2022); KD (8/11/2022) |