Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Vindob. G. 13290 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro ll. 1-8: Document concerning the sale of a slave. (Greek) Re-use: 2. Vo ll. 1-16: Letter of Jesus to Abgar. (Coptic) |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 15 | Width: 12.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Karev 2023: 117. Dimensions are for the magical re-use; height and width need to be reversed for the original documentary use, since the re-use is written at 90° to the original use. |
| Folding pattern: | 1 vertical, 2 or more horizontal creases. |
| State of preservation: | Original use broken on upper, left and bottom margins. Magical re-use has top, left and right margins preserved, but bottom margin lost. |
| 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 each, recto (↓) and verso (→). 8 surviving lines recto, 16 surviving lines verso. Verso text written at 90° clockwise to recto. |
| Hand: | Two hands recto, one hand verso. |
| Findspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (TM places ID: 816) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (TM places ID: 816) |
| Present Location: | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek |
| Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
357 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | As noted by Karev (2023: p. 115 n. 3) the original text was the documentary text on the vertical fibres of the recto; the papyrus was then cut down (leaving the recto text incomplete) before the verso text (whose left and right margins are complete) was written. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Karev, Ella. “Slave Sale from Hermopolis (P.Vindob. G 13290 r°; Sixth/Seventh Century)”, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 60 (2023): 115-123. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| 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 (27/9/2023); KD (16/10/2023); KD (17/10/2023) |