Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM Christian 5a |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-18, Vo l. 1: Healing amulet to protect Aria from fever. |
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. | 301 – 400 |
Date notes: | TM (19/2/2019); Grenfell & Hunt 1931: p. 289. |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A76 |
Archive name: | Oxyrhynchus Christian Amulet Dossier |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 9 | Width: 7.6 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Grenfell & Hunt 1931: p. 289. |
Folding pattern: | 5 vertical, 4 (?) horizontal folds. |
State of preservation: | Complete, missing piece in the middle of the text. |
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 each recto (→) and verso (↓), 18 lines recto, 1 line verso. Verso at 90 degrees to recto so it follows the fibre direction. |
Hand: | Oxyrhynchus Christian Amulet Dossier Hand |
Findspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1524) |
Present Location: | Brussels, Musées Royaux |
Collection History: | Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 64 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | P. Oxy. VI 924, P. Oxy LXXXII 5306, 5307 are all written in the same hand (Maltomini 2016: p. 76-77). Similar to BGU 956 and Tebt 275 |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Blumell, Lincoln H. and Thomas A. Wayment. Christian Oxyrynchus. Texts, Documents, and Sources. Waco: Bylor University Press, 2015, no. 94 (MPS non vidi). |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 39-40, no. 15. |
General: | Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” Patrologia orientalis 18.3 (1924): p |
Trismegistos ID: | 64394 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | Christian 5a |
SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 15 |
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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 | ||||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | 953 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 20 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | MPS (13/2/2019); MPS (19/2/2019); KD (25/2/2021) |