Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Mich. inv. 3527 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Sheets 1-3, recto: Uncertain text; applied amulet for healing/protection (?). |
| Language(s): | Greek (?) |
| Script(s): | Coptic (?) |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | Language is unknown, since sheets have never been unfolded. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
1 – 900 |
| Date notes: | Since text is not visible, the date is very uncertain. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Unpublished. |
| Image: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-9873/3527.tif |
| Form: | sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | |
| Folding pattern: | All three papyrus sheets are well folded. |
| State of preservation: | Apparently complete; original report describes four pieces of papyrus, so it is possible that one amulet has been lost. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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3 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | Three separate papyrus pieces; perhaps 3 different texts. The lack of visible text on the outside suggests they were written on the recto only. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 2740) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
| Collection History: | The papyrus was purchased from Maurice Nahman in 1925 and came to University in October 1926 as a gift of Oscar Weber and Richard H. Webber (of Detroit) (Collection website 5/9/2023). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
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| Collection website: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-9873/3527.tif |
| Notes/Discussion: | Three strips of papyrus folded into packets and attached to a string. The original report describes four strips, so it is possible one has since been lost. Apparently never unfolded. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Bell, H.I. “Report on Papyri: 1925 Consignment” (1925) p. 21 (no. 277), online at https://apps.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/papyrology/acq-reports/Report%20on%20Papyri%2C%20etc.%2C%20of%201925%20consignment.pdf |
| 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: | MPS (5/9/2023); KD (16/10/2023) |