Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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SM 6 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | 1. ll. 1-9: Applied amulet for protection against evil, gods, demons, and the evil eye. |
| 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. |
-30 – 284 |
| Date notes: | TM (3/9/2019); Roman Period (Daniel & Maltomini 1990: p. 17) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010026470 |
| Form: | Statue |
| Material: | Stone (haematite) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6.3 | Width: | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete with some damage. |
| 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. 9 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Atripe, Egypt (TM places ID: 369) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Atripe, Egypt (TM places ID: 369) |
| Present Location: | Paris, Louvre |
| Collection History: | Acquired from Maurice Nahman in 1902 (coll. website 1/10/2021). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
274 |
| Collection website: | https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010026470 |
| Notes/Discussion: | This is a haematite falcon produced during the Saite period, with an inscription from the Roman period. The name of the individual for whom the amulet was copied (in ll. 7-8) seems to have been deleted, perhaps to be re-used or to be deactivated/disarmed. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Dain, Alphonse. Inscriptions grecques du Musée du Louvre. Les Textes Inedits. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1933, p. 178, no. 204. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Skeen, Bradley A. “A Note on a Hematite Falcon in the Louvre.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 133 (2000): 149-152. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 92851 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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6 |
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 (3/9/2019); ST (18/11/2020); EL (2/12/2020); KD (1/10/2021) |