Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM Christian 17 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro: Accounts (unpublished) Re-use: 2. Ro ll. 1-18: Protective amulet consisting of lists of Biblical citations |
| 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. |
401 – 600 |
| Date notes: | TM (27/2/2019); Jones 2015: p. 94. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | http://bibd.uni-giessen.de/papyri/images/piand-inv014recto.jpg |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 15.5 | Width: 30 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Jones 2015: p. 95; 15.3 x 30 (Preisendanz 1974: p. 226). |
| Folding pattern: | 5 horizontal creases, at least 7 vertical creases. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, damaged along folds, piece from the top right missing. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 18 lines verso (re-use). |
| Hand: | Clumsy and irregular hand (Jones 2015: p. 98). |
| Findspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
| Place of purchase: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
| Writingspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
| Present Location: | Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Collection History: | Bought in Hermopolis (Schäfer 1912: p. 18). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
140 |
| Collection website: | https://www.papyrusportal.de/receive/GiePapyri_text_00007390 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Folded in antiquity (TM) Unsusual marking – triangle – above ⲡⲛⲁ – see Jones, p. 101. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Chapa, Juan. “Su demoni e angeli: il Salmo 90 nel suo contesto.” In I papiri letterari cristiani: atti del convegno internazionale di studi in memoria di Mario Naldini, Firenze, 10-11 Giugno 2010, edited by Guido Bastianini and Angelo Casanova. Florence: Instituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli,” 2011, 59-90, p. 86, no. 18. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 45-46, no. 21. |
| General: | Aland, Kurt. Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri. Biblische Papyri, Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Vol. 1. Patristische Texte und Studien 18. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1976, Var30. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 64868 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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Christian 17 |
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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21 |
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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 |
917 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
36 |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | MPS (27/2/2019); MPS (29/9/2020) |