Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM XXIVb |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-8: List of body parts |
Form: | Sheet (?) |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 10.6 | Width: 5.8 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Grenfell & Hunt 1908: p. 201. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Incomplete; fragmentary. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto and verso. 8 lines on recto, 7 lines verso. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1524) |
Present Location: | Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
Collection History: | Found in situ by the Egypt Exploration Fund. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 73 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Perhaps contains love spell involving the manipulation of a doll by the insertion of nails into specific body parts (in dative). Grenfell & Hunt suggest the text contains instructions for wrestling (1908: p. 201). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Grenfell, Bernard P., and Athur S. Hunt. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 6. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1908, p. 201-202, no. 887. |
Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 264, no. PGM 24b. |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 63949 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | 24b |
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 | ||||
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 (17/5/2019); MPS (16/9/2020); KD (14/4/2021); KD (14/10/2021) |