Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM Christian 24 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Oracle ticket |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-4 – Vo ll. 1: Oracle ticket asking God and St. Philoxenos about banking involvement |
| 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. |
501 – 600 |
| Date notes: | TM (13/2/2019); Preisendanz 1974: p. 232. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A61 |
| Archive name: | Philoxenos Oracle Tickets |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 7.5 | Width: 15.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Preisendanz 1974: p. 232. |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete. |
| 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 recto with 4 lines, 1 column verso with 1 line. |
| Hand: | Philoxenos Oracle Tickets 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: | Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library |
| Collection History: | Originally one papyrus with P. Oxy. 16 1926, but already cut in antiquity (TM 29/9/2020). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
3613 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | P. Oxy. 16 1926 is a negatively phrased version of this oracle ticket, which is phrased positively. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Powell, J. Enoch. The Rendel Harris Papyri of Woodbrooke College, Birmingham: With a Portrait and 5 Plates. Vol. 1. Cambridge: University Press, 1936, no. 54. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 54, no. 33. |
| General: | Horsley, G.H.R. New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, 1977, no. 40. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 64994 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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Christian 24 |
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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33 |
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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 |
915 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | MPS (13/2/2019); MPS (29/9/2020) |