Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Oxy. LXV 4469 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-43: Letter to Jesus from Abgar for healing of Epimache |
| Language(s): | Greek |
| Script(s): | Greek |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (?) |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
451 – 500 |
| Date notes: | TM (19/8/2020); 5th century (Maltomini, 1998: p. 122); 401-500 (Collection Website 29/3/2019). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | . |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 15 | Width: 5.3 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Maltomini 1998: p. 122. |
| Folding pattern: | 6 vertical creases. Folded once vertically, then three more times to produce 6 folds. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, significant damage to left-hand side and holes throughout. |
| 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, 43 lines, written along fibers. |
| 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: | Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms |
| Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
264 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | Contains additions to basic text, including instructions to heal a specific individual (Epimachus), added in Coptic. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Maltomini, Franco. “Letter of Abgar to Jesus (Amulet).” In The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, volume LXV, edited by M.W. Haslam et. al. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1998, p. 122-129, no. 4469 (P. Oxy. LXV 4469). |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 193. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 58906 |
PAThs: | 6384 |
| 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” |
212 |
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)" |
48 |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | KD (10/10/2018); EL (29/3/2019); MPS (1/10/2019); MPS (19/8/2020) |