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TM 64001 / LDAB 5216 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/64001

Metadata

Date: 3rd - 4th century AD: AD 200 - 399

Provenance: Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa) - Egypt (19th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa) ? - Egypt (19th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Greek

Material: papyrus

Completely preserved

Book form: sheet; number of lines per page: 25

Content (beta!): magical: Isis oracle with 29 letters on palm leaves

Culture & genre: religion — divination, oracle, formulary (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, KyprianosKyprianos Magical Text Database => 1447 links in TM

Publications

P. Oxy. 6 886 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S. - 1908) link courtesy Loreleï Vanderheyden and Jean-Luc Fournet [default]

∙Faraone / Torallas Tovar (ed.), Greek and Egyptian magical formularies 1 52 (Faraone, Christopher A. / Torallas Tovar, Sofia - 2022)

∙Mirecki / Meyer (ed.), Magic and ritual in the ancient world (Religions in the Graeco-Roman world 141) p. 25-28 no. 1 (Jordan, David R. - 2002)

∙Betz, The Greek magical papyri in translation p. 264 no. PGM 24 a (Grese, William C. - 1992)

∙Pap. Graec. Mag.(2) 2 24 a (Preisendanz, Karl - 1974)

Photo: P.Mirecki - M.Meyer, Magic and Ritual, 2002, p. 31

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Collections

→ Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE 47411

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    TM 64001

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