Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | SM 37 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Tablet A ll. 1-12 + tablet B ll. 1-6: Applied love spell calling upon the deceased Horion, son of Sarapous, to make Nike, daughter of Apollonous, love Pantous, son of Tmesios. |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Metal (lead) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 8.8 | Width: 10.1 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Daniel & Maltomini 1990 p. 115. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete, but damaged. |
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 on each tablet. Tablet A 12 lines. Tablet B 6 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1589) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1589) |
Present Location: | Heidelberg, Archäologisches Institut |
Collection History: | |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 1220 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Two tablets formed a diptych which was placed with its inscribed faces facing one another and pierced by four nails. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Bilabel, Friedrich. Sammelbuch Griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 3. Berlin/Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter, 1926, no. 6224 + 6225. |
Translations: | |
General: | Borell, Brigitte. Statuen, Gefäße und andere Gegenstände aus Metall. Katalog der Sammlung antiker Kleinkunst des Archäologischen Instituts der Universität Heidelberg. III.1. Mainz am Rhein: Von Zabern, 1989, no. 56. |
Trismegistos ID: | 92858 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | 37 |
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 | 315 |
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Edit History: | KD (13/9/2019); ST (29/11/2020); EL (2/12/2020) |