Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Berlin P. 9909 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-54: Applied love spell to make Karosa, daughter of Thelo, love Apalos, son of Theonilla. |
| 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 – 500 |
| Date notes: | Preisendanz (1931: p. 141); 201-400 (TM 29/5/20) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published |
| Image: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_09909_R_001.jpg |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 22.8 | Width: 30 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Preisendanz 1931: p. 141. |
| Folding pattern: | 3 vertical creases, 5 (?) horizontal creases. |
| 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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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto (→), 54 lines. |
| Hand: |
| 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: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
| Collection History: | Acquired in 1903 in Ashmunein by Otto Rubensohn. (col. website 3/6/20) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
40 |
| Collection website: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/record/?result=0&Alle=9909 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Preisendanz (1931: p. 141) notes that it had been folded 4 times horizontally and 3 times vertically, to be put into the mouth of a mummy (based on the text). Found rolled around with brown-red hair. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Berlin: Teubner, 1931, p. 141-144, no. 19a. |
| Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 256-257, no. 19a. |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 89305 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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19a |
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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| 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: | ST (29/5/2020); ST (3/6/2020); KD (9/9/2020); MPS (8/10/2020) |