Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM XVIIb |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro: Accounts (II CE; unpublished) Re-use: 2. Vo ll.1-23: Hymn to Hermes for divination. |
Form: | Roll (?) |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 21 | Width: 10 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Width varies from 5.5-10 cm (PGM II p. 139). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary; upper and lower margins preserved, sides lost. Two fragments. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 surviving column verso (↓) (magical re-use), 23 lines. 1 column recto (→), original use. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (TM places ID: 816) |
Place of purchase: | Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 2740) |
Writingspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (TM places ID: 816) |
Present Location: | Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale |
Collection History: | Purchased through Dr Borchhardt in Cairo prior to 1903 (Plasberg 1903: p. 208). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 322 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Heitsch, Ernst, Die griechischen Dichterfragmente der römischen Kaiserzeit 1. Göttingen: Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, 1961, 186 no. LIX 8. |
Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 254, no. 17b. |
General: | Tissi, Lucia Maddalena. “L’innologia magica: per una puntualizzazione tassonomica,” in Écrire la magie dans l’antiquité, edited by Magali de Haro Sanchez (Liège: resses Universitaires de Liège, 2015) (Papyrologica Leodiensia 5), p. 151-172. |
Trismegistos ID: | 64226 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | 17b |
SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | 19 | 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 | 1870 |
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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 (16/5/2019); KD (24/9/2020) |