Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM LXXVIII |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro ll.1-12: Documentary text of unclear type, perhaps relating to taxation. Re-use: 2. Vo ll.1-14: Love spell with illustration (Artemis of Ephesus?). |
| 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. |
201 – 300 |
| Date notes: | 3rd century CE (Preisendanz and Henrichs 1974: p. 207; Kramer and Hagedorn, 1998: p. 178, for original use). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~gv0/Papyri/Verstreutes/2170_V_Preisendanz/2170_V_Preisendanz_(150).html |
| Form: | Sheet (?) |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 23.2 | Width: 16.4 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Fragment a: 9.2 (W) x 13 (H); fragment b: 7.2 (W) x 10.2 (H); full size was probably considerably larger than this. |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, 2 fragments. Top margin survives, broken on all other sides. |
| 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 verso (↓), 14 lines and illustration (magical re-use). 1 column recto (→), 12 lines (original use). Verso at 180 degrees to recto. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 2740) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
| Collection History: | Purchased by Karl Schmidt in Cairo in 1937 (Preisendanz and Henrichs 1974: p. 206). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
156 |
| Collection website: | http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~gv0/Papyri/Verstreutes/2170_V_Preisendanz/2170_V_Preisendanz.html |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Kramer, Bärbel, and Dieter Hagedorn. Griechische Papyri der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg (P. Hamb. IV). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1998, p. 178-179, no. 273. [recto] |
| Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 299, no. 78. |
| General: | Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens no. 1. Vienna: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 245, ViP 183. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 64067 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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78 |
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 (26/3/2019); KD (9/10/2020); MPS (25/3/2021) |