Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | 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. | |
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. | 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-huintième journée dàétudes (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 | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
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 | |||
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) |