Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM XVIIIb |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-11: Amulet against fever for Dionusos or Anus son of Heraclia |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Formed a cylinder of 2 cm of length and 1 cm in diameter (Wilcken 1901: p. 420-421). |
Folding pattern: | Found bound with a red string (TM 19/10/2020; BGU III: p. 280; Wilcken 1901: p. 420-421). |
State of preservation: | Complete. Now lost. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, written with fibers (?) (Collection website 19/10/2020). 10 lines written in “wing formation,” 1 long line of text surrounding the formation two or three times (Wilcken 1901: p. 421). |
Hand: | Cursive (BGU III: p. 280) |
Findspot: | Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina) (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 801) |
Present Location: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
Collection History: | Lost in a fire in Hamburg, spring 1899, the same year it was excavated (Collection website 19/10/2020; Wilcken 1901: p. 420-421). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 40 |
Collection website: | https://berlpap.smb.museum/00232/ |
Notes/Discussion: | . |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 140-141, no. 18b. |
Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 255, PGM XVIII b. |
General: | Wilcken, Ulrich. “Die Berliner Papyrusgrabung in Herakleopolis Magna.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 2 (1903): p. 333f. |
Trismegistos ID: | 65802 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | 18b |
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 | 6018 |
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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: | MPS (19/10/2020) |