Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | GMA 7 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-10: Amulet for a group of family members (?) named Tertullus, son of Livia, Chilon, Luciolus, and Mercussa from “any risk of loss” (protection). |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Metal (silver) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 4.7 | Width: 6 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Kotansky (1994: p. 25); Grimm (1969: p. 212); Wagner (1908: p. 168). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Incomplete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 10 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Badenweiler, Germany (Germania) (TM places ID: 27835) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Badenweiler, Germany (Germania) (?) (TM places ID: 27835) |
Present Location: | Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe |
Collection History: | Found in situ in 1784 at the remains of the Roman Thermal Baths in Badenweiler (Kotansky 1994: p. 25). |
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Notes/Discussion: | Kotansky (1994: p. 28-29) suggests that the amulet might protect the named family members as litigants in a legal procedure. Text is Latin written in Greek script. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Brambach, Wilhelm. Corpus Inscriptionum Rhenanarum. Elberfeldae: Friderichs, 1867, p. 358, no. vi,5. |
Translations: | |
General: | Bauer, Adolf. “Amulet aus Regensburg.” Archäologisch-Epigraphische Mitteilungen 1 (1877): 70. |
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 (18/10/2022); ST (19/10/2022); ST (20/10/2022); ST (21/10/2022); ST (22/10/2022); ST (24/10/2022); ST (31/10/2022); KD (8/11/2022); ST (22/3/2023); ST (20/4/2023) |