Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Leiden National Museum of Antiquities AH. 157A (a-b) |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Documentary (school text) (?) |
Contents: | Original use: 1. Tablet a side A text a ll. 1-7: Bous formula with parts of Psalm LXX 90 (applied amulet for protection? ). Re-use: 2. Tablet a side A text b l. 1: Greek text (unclear) |
Form: | Tablet |
Material: | Wood (acacia) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 12.3 | Width: 36.5 | Depth: 0.7 |
Dimensions (notes): | Part a: 12 (H) x 36.5 (W) x 0.7 (D). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete, text partially effaced. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 3 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | Formed a small codex made of two small wooden boards. |
Hand: | 7 hands (Delattre and Worp 2012) |
Findspot: | Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (TM places ID: 1341) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1341) |
Present Location: | Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities |
Collection History: | Acquired from Jean d’Anastasy as part of purchase in 1828 (private communication Daniel Soliman 21/10/2020). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 178 |
Collection website: |
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Bibiliography |
Editions: | Delattre, Alain, and Klaas A. Worp. “Trois tablettes de bois du Musée de Leyde.” Chronique d‘Égypte 87.174 (2012): p. 363-371, no. 2-3. |
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Trismegistos ID: | 131613 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | 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 | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (12/3/2019); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (14/10/2019); MPS (17/10/2019); MPS (17/8/2020); MPS (19/8/2020); MPS (25/3/2021) |