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TM 64218 / LDAB 5437 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/64218

also known as PDM Suppl.

Metadata

Date: 3rd century AD: AD 200 - 299

Provenance: Dios Polis (Thebes east) - Egypt (4th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Demotic / Greek / Hieratic / Old Coptic

parallel: mixture of Demotic and Hieratic with some Old Coptic glosses and a Greek text on the Vo which may be related

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 30, 29, 27, 28, 15, 24

Content (beta!): scientific, magical text, spells for sending a dream and invocations to gods

Culture & genre: literature, science, religion — magic, divination, incubation, formulary (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation?

Reuse type: palimpsest new, effacing: see notes

Reuse note: palimpsest old: illegible Greek text; palimpsest new on Vo is written by a different hand

Note: vertical and horizontal borderlines in red between each column; headings in red ink (red ink rubrics)

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, KyprianosKyprianos Magical Text Database => 1447 links in TM, LouvreCollections du Louvre => 3210 links in TM

Publications

Magica varia (Pap. Brux. 25) p. 73 no. 3 (Brashear, William Matt - 1991; Greek)
&Betz, The Greek magical papyri in translation p. 323-330 no. PDM Suppl. (Johnson, Janet H. - 1986) [default]

∙Faraone / Torallas Tovar (ed.), Greek and Egyptian magical formularies 1 17 (Faraone, Christopher A. / Torallas Tovar, Sofia / Dosoo, Korshi / Escolano-Poveda, Marina / Johnson, Janet H. / Love, Edward O. D. / Singer, C. - 2022)

∙Enchoria 7 (1977), p. 59-66 (Johnson, Janet H. - 1977; Demotic only)

∙Devéria, Catalogue p. 176-177 no. VIII, 6 descr. (Devéria, Théodule - 1881)

Photo: Grossman, e.a. (ed.), Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic (Lingua Aegyptia, Studia Monographica 17), 2017, p. 50

Script & book studies: dated palaeographically to the third century AD or only slightly later (cf. Betz, Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, p. LVII).

Collections

→ Paris, Louvre E 3229

∙Alexandria, Private collection d’Anastasi / Anastasy 1061 (previous)
∙Alexandria, Private collection d’Anastasi / Anastasy 1061 (1857) (previous)

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