Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM XVI |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-74: Applied binding love spell binding Sarapion son of Pasametra for Dioskorous son of Tikoi. |
| 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. |
101 – 300 |
| Date notes: | TM (2/10/2020); late 2nd or 3rd century (Jordan 1988: p. 232); 1st century (Preisendanz 1974: p. 135 and Wessely 1888-9). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010001607 |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 27 | Width: 15.4 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Jordan 1988: p. 234. 28.4 (H) x 13.3 cm (coll. website 1/10/2021). |
| Folding pattern: | 3 vertical, 8 (?) 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 (→), 74 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Paris, Louvre |
| Collection History: | Acquired in 16/2/1857 (coll. website 1/10/2021). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
274 |
| Collection website: | https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010001607 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Jordan assumes it was deposited in a cemetery, as it addresses a the spirit of a dead person (Jordan 1988: p. 232). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Jordan, David R. “A New Reading of a Papyrus Love Charm in the Louvre.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie and Epigraphie 74 (1988): p. 231-243. |
| Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 252-253, no. PGM 16. |
| General: | Devéria, Théodule. Catalogue des manuscrits égyptiens au Musée Egyptien du Louvre. Paris: Charles de Mourgues Frères, 1881, p. 250, no. XIV.46. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 63916 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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16 |
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 (9/3/2019); MPS (2/10/2020); KD (1/10/2021); KD (14/11/2024) |