Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Oxy. LXVIII 4672 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-15: Love spell invoking Hekate to prevent victim from sleeping until she comes to user. |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | |
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Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 201 – 300 |
Date notes: | Third century dating according to GEMF (11/7/2019). third or fourth century in Colomo 2003: p. 111. 201-400 CE according to Col. website (17/1/2021). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | http://163.1.169.40/gsdl/collect/POxy/index/assoc/HASH014e/23cecad9.dir/POxy.v0068.n4672.a.01.hires.jpg |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 10.6 | Width: 13.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | GEMF (17/1/2021). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary |
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 recto (→). 15 lines. |
Hand: | Rather formal |
Findspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (TM places ID: 1524) |
Present Location: | Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms |
Collection History: | Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 264 |
Collection website: | http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=q-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-4672--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=search&d=HASH014e23cecad9ddb636062e12 |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Colomo, Daniela. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 68 (P. Oxy. LXVIII), edited by N. Gonis, D. Obbink, and P.J. Parsons. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2003, p. 111-114, no. 4673. |
Translations: | |
General: | Serafini, N. La dea Ecate nell’antica Grecia. Una protettrice dalla quale proteggersi. Rome: Aracne editrice, 2015, p. 256-258. |
Trismegistos ID: | 101344 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | 44 | 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 (21/5/2019); ST (17/1/2021); KD (23/2/2021) |