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PGM Christian 8a |
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Oracle ticket |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-5 – Vo ll. 1: Oracle ticket asking God and St. Philoxenos about banking involvement |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: ![]() |
501 – 600 |
Date notes: | TM (13/1/2019); Grenfell, Hunt 1924: p. 206; Youtie 1975: p. 253. |
Archive/collection: ![]() |
KYP A61 |
Archive name: | Philoxenos Oracle Tickets |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_XVI_1926_Prayer/21133321 |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 7.1 | Width: 16.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Grenfell, Hunt 1924: p. 206. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete. |
Pages/Columns: ![]() |
2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 5 lines; 1 column verso, 1 line. |
Hand: | Same hand as Harris 54 (ID 448) . See Youtie 1975: p. 256. |
Findspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1524) |
Present Location: | Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms |
Collection History: | Originally one papyrus with P. Harris 1 54 (TM 64994=M448), but already cut apart in antiquity (TM 28/9/2020). |
Trismegistos collection: ![]() |
264 |
Collection website: | https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/P_Oxy_XVI_1926_Prayer/21133321 |
Notes/Discussion: | This is a negative phrasing of the same oracle, of which the positive phrasing parallel survives (oracle Harris 54). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Grenfell, Bernard P., Athur S. Hunt. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 16. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1924, p. 206, no. 1926. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 53, no. 32. |
General: | Kocar, Alexander. “Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity.” In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, edited by AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 188, Leiden: Brill, 2018. |
Trismegistos ID: | 69699 |
PAThs: |
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Christian 8a |
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ACM: ![]() |
32 |
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Van H: ![]() |
963 |
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Edit History: | MPS (13/1/2019); MPS (28/9/2020); TM number of P. Harris 1 54 corrected according to information from Elisabetta Falduto (5/5/2022) |