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TM 55956 / LDAB 5314 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/55956

Metadata

Date: second half 3rd century AD: AD 250 - 299
cf. J.F. Quack, in: E. Grossman e.a. (ed.), Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic (Lingua Aegyptia, Studia Monographica 17), p.54

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 / Old Coptic

continuation: Ro has Demotic text (eight columns) with two magical names in Old Coptic; two Greek sections and the name of the ingredients in Greek; Vo has two columns of Demotic with Old Coptic and four columns of Greek

Material: papyrus

Book form: sheet

Content (beta!): magical: handbook (love spells, medical recipes, ...)

Culture & genre: science, religion — magic, medicine, formulary (religion: Egyptian, classical, jewish, gnostic)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation

Note: headings in red, red ink rubrics; Quack : not part of the Theban library (Würzburg congress)

More info: BMThe British Museum => 11071 links in TM [2], DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, KyprianosKyprianos Magical Text Database => 1447 links in TM

Publications

Faraone / Torallas Tovar (ed.), Greek and Egyptian magical formularies 1 18 (Faraone, Christopher A. / Torallas Tovar, Sofia / Dosoo, Korshi / Escolano-Poveda, Marina / Johnson, Janet H. / Love, Edward O. D. / Singer, C. - 2022) Please subscribe to follow this link
&Proceedings of the British Academy 17 (1931), p. 235-287 (Bell, Harold Idris / Nock, Arthur Darby / Thompson, Herbert - 1931; default for Demotic) [default]

∙Enchoria 27 (2001), p. 83-87 (Lieven, Alexandra von - 2001; col. VI (spell to find a thief) only)

∙Betz, The Greek magical papyri in translation p. 286-292 no. PDM 61 (Johnson, Janet H. / Kotansky, Roy D. / O'Neil, Edward N. - 1986; Demotic translation)

∙Pap. Graec. Mag.(2) 2 61 (Preisendanz, Karl - 1974; only Greek)

Script & book studies: dated palaeographically to the 3rd century AD or only slightly later (cf. Betz, Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, p. LVII).

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Theban magical library (uncertain)

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