Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM XVIIIa |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied ?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-4: Applied amulet invoking the Lord Sabaoth for healing/protection from disease, against headache |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | No dimensions recorded. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete (?). Not preserved. |
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, 4 lines. |
Hand: | Cursive (BGU III p. 279). |
Findspot: | Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina), Egypt (TM places ID: 801) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 801) |
Present Location: | [lost] |
Collection History: | Papyrus was destroyedby burning in 1899. Previously Berlin, Staatliche Museen. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | |
Collection website: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/00229/ |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 140, no. 18a. |
Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 255 no. PGM 18a. |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 64364 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | 18a |
SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | |||
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 | 6030 |
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Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | 721 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (9/3/2019); MPS (24/9/2020); JS (03/11/2021) |