Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM XXXIX |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-21: Applied love spell to bring Heracles son of Taapis to Allous, daughter of Alexandria; contains two figures, one of the god Bes. |
| 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. |
301 – 400 |
| Date notes: | Preisendanz (1931: p. 177); TM (19/8/2020). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published |
| Image: | https://ub-media.uio.no/OPES/jpg/434r.jpg |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 20.7 | Width: 12.7 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Col. website (9/9/2020) |
| Folding pattern: | 5 vertical folds. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some cracking along folds. |
| 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 (→) with drawing, 21 lines. Perhaps washed out text on verso (Hickey et al. 2015: p. 169) |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Fayum, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Place of purchase: | Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 2740) |
| Writingspot: | Fayum, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Present Location: | Oslo, University Library |
| Collection History: | Purchased in 1923 from Maurice Nahman through British Museum and H.I. Bell, part of packet from the Fayum (col. website 9/9/2020; Hickey et all 2015: p. 180 n. 83). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
262 |
| Collection website: | https://ub-baser.uio.no/opes/record/43?q=inv_no+contains+434&id=42 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Eitrem, Samson. Papyri Osloenses. Vol. 1. Magical Papyri. (P. Oslo) Oslo: Academy of Science and Letters of Oslo, 1925, no. 4. |
| Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 279, no. 39. |
| General: | Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen Verlag, 1992, p. 247, ViP 205. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 64481 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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39 |
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); ST (19/8/2020; KD (9/9/2020); KD (30/1/2021) |