Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | SM 49 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-43 – Vo ll. 1-37: Love spell to make Matrona, daughter of Tagenes, love Theodoros, son of Tekhosis. |
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. | 101 – 300 |
Date notes: | TM (20/3/2020); Jordan (1988: p. 245) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A83 |
Archive name: | Oxyhrynchus Love Spell Dossier |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/Magie/magie_01.html |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Metal (lead) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 15 | Width: 9.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (21/3/2020); SM 1.49 |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete. |
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 recto with 43 lines, 1 column verso with 37 lines. |
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: | Universität zu Köln, Cologne |
Collection History: | Found in an inscribed clay pot together with another tablet. All three texts were written by the same hand and all are love spells meant to make a woman named Matrona fall in love with a man – Theodor (Jordan 1988: p. 246). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 172 |
Collection website: | https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/tm64308 |
Notes/Discussion: | Iambic trimeter and dactylic hexameter. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, p. 193-204, no. 49. |
Translations: | |
General: | Cauderlier, Patrice. “Les tablettes grecques d’Égypte: Inventaire.” Bibliologia 12 (1992): p. 93, no. 315. |
Trismegistos ID: | 64308 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | 49 |
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 | 1982.21 |
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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 | 324 |
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Edit History: | MP (20/2/2020); MP (21/2/2020); MP (23/2/2020); MPS (4/12/2020); KD (22/2/2022) |