Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM O 4 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied ?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-9: Lord’s Prayer (Mt 9,9-13) |
Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 13.5 | Width: 12 | Depth: 2 |
Dimensions (notes): | The complete object could have been 22.5 x 18.5 cm (Knopf 1901: p. 228; Knopf 1900: p. 313). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary; left and top missing. |
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, 9 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Megara, Greece (TM places ID: 1331) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Megara, Greece (?) (TM places ID: 1331) |
Present Location: | Athens, National Museum 12227 |
Collection History: | Found by a boy in Megara and sold. The seller, after learning the nature of the object, then donated it to the National Museum in Athens (Knopf 1900: p. 313). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 17 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | A phylactery according to Knopf (1901). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Knopf, Rudolf. “Eine Thonscherbe mit dem Texte des Vaterunser.” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 25. Athens, 1900: p. 313-324 |
Translations: | |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 64372 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | O 4 |
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 | 348 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | MPS (30/9/2020); MPS (1/10/2020) |