Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Mich. Inv. 3404r |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro Col. 1 ll. 1-21, col. 2 ll. 1-22: Invocation to the sun god Helios to grant beauty and victory (favour). |
| 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. |
201 – 300 |
| Date notes: | Cohn (2012: p. 243). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Recto published; verso unpublished. |
| Image: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-9851/3404V_IR.TIF?chaperone=S-APIS-X-9851+3404V.TIF;lastview=reslist;size=50;view=entry |
| Form: | Roll |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 23.6 | Width: 21 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Cohn (2012: p. 243). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary. Broken at the right- and left-hand sides. Most of second column 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): | 2 surviving columns recto (→) and 1 column verso (↓). 43 lines recto: 21 lines in the first column, 22 lines in the second column mostly lost; 20 lines verso. Writing on the verso at 180 degress from the writing on the recto. |
| Hand: | Cursive |
| Findspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| 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). (Cohn 2012; p. 243; col. website 28/12/2020). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
12 |
| Collection website: | http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-9851/3404r.tif |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Cohn, Matt. “P. Mich. 3404 recto: An Unpublished Magical Papyrus.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 182 (2012): 243-257. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 144114 |
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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42 | 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: | EL (19/11/2018); ST (28/12/2020); KD (11/2/2021) |