Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Berlin P. 21269 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Oracle ticket |
| Contents: | Original use (?): 1. Ro: End of a letter. Re-use (?): 2. Vo ll. 1-5: Oracle ticket with response (“yes”). |
| 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 – 700 |
| Date notes: | TM (1/10/2018) |
| 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_21269_R_001.jpg |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6.6 | Width: 9.4 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Treu 1986: p. 29. |
| Folding pattern: | 3 (?) vertical, 5 (?) horizontal creases. |
| State of preservation: | Palimpsest. |
| 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 verso (→) oracular re-use, 5 lines. Original documentary use recto (↓) |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 327) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 327) |
| Present Location: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
| Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
40 |
| Collection website: | http://berlpap.smb.museum/ |
| Notes/Discussion: | Publication in Treu assumes that the oracle ticket is the original use, but the fact that the oracle ticket is preserved, but only the end of the letter survives suggests the reverse (KD 18/11/2020). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Ioannidou, G. Berliner Klassikertexte IX, Catalogue of Greek and Latin Literary Papyri in Berlin (BKT IX) Mainz, 1996 no. 173. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 54-55, no. 34. |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 36291 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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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: | KD (18/11/2020) |