Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | SM 58 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | Original use (?): 1. Concave: Account of corn and wine Re-use (?): 2. Convex ll.1-11: Spell to restrain anger and for victory (silencing curse) |
Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 12.8 | Width: 16 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Daniel and Maltomini 1992: p. 43. |
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. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column verso (convex, re-use), 1 column recto (concave, original use). |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Thebes, Egypt (TM places ID: 2355) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Thebes, Egypt (TM places ID: 2355) |
Present Location: | Oxford, Ashmolean Museum |
Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 263 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Bevilacqua, Gabriella, Scrittura e magia. Un repertorio di oggetti iscritti della magia greco-romana. Opuscula epigraphica 12. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2010, p. 40-41. |
Translations: | |
General: | Martin Hernández, Raquel, and Torallas Tovar, Sofìa. “The Use of the Ostracon in Magical Practice in Late Antique Egypt.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 80 (2014): p. 735 no. 5. |
Trismegistos ID: | 92334 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | 58 |
GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | 79 | 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 | 310 |
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Edit History: | KD (17/5/2019); KD (11/12/2020) |