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also known as Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden

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Date: late 2nd - mid 3rd century AD: AD 175 - 250

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: Demotic main text and three columns in Greek, between the lines special Demotic for exact pronunciation, Cipher, Old Coptic glosses and some Hieratic

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 28, 29, 35, 24, 34, 37, 18, 26, 31, 33, 30, 32, 40, 43, 5, 39, 36, 15, 11, 20, 19, 17, 8, 7, 10, 12, 13, 2, 6,

Content (beta!): magical: handbook; spells, medical prescriptions, short invocations

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

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation

Note: on the Ro each column is written within a frame of horizontal and vertical lines, headings in red, red ink rubrics

More info: BMThe British Museum => 11071 links in TM [2][3], DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, KyprianosKyprianos Magical Text Database => 1447 links in TM, TLAThesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae => 1328 links in TM

Publications

Faraone / Torallas Tovar (ed.), Greek and Egyptian magical formularies 1 16 (Sarischouli, Panagiota / Dieleman, Jacco / Dosoo, Korshi / Escolano-Poveda, Marina / Johnson, Janet H. / Singer, C. - 2022) Please subscribe to follow this link [default]

∙Betz, The Greek magical papyri in translation p. 195-251 no. PDM 14 & PGM 14 (Johnson, Janet H. - 1992)

∙Pap. Graec. Mag.(2) 2 14 (Preisendanz, Karl - 1974; only Greek)

∙Griffith / Thompson, P. London - Leiden p. 20-204 (Griffith, Francis Llewellyn / Thompson, Herbert - 1904-1909; Demotic only)

∙Hess, Gnostische Papyrus p. x-xi descr. (Hess von Wys, Jean Jacques - 1892; London part only)

∙Revue égyptologique 14 (1914), p. 33-37 (Revillout, Eugène - 1914; col. 4/1-24 only) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Revue égyptologique 12 (1907), p. 60-71 (Revillout, Eugène - 1907) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Revue égyptologique 11 (1904), p. 178-188 (Revillout, Eugène - 1904) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Revue égyptologique 2 (1881), p. 271-272 (Revillout, Eugène - 1881; beginning London fragment only) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Recueil de travaux égyptiennes et assyriennes 1 (1879), p. 20-40 (Maspero, Gaston - 1879; col. 20-21 only) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Brugsch, Grammaire démotique p. 202 & pl. 9 [b] (Brugsch, Heinrich Karl - 1855; only partim)

Photo: Grossman, e.a. (ed.), Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic (Lingua Aegyptia, Studia Monographica 17), 2017, p. 53

Content studies: J. Dieleman, Priest, Tongues and Rites, Religions of the Ancient World 153, Leiden 2005; J.F. Quack, in : E. Grossman e.a. (edd.), Greek Influence on Egyptian-Coptic (Lingua Aegyptia, Studia Monographica 17), p.52-53 (on the scripts)

Script & book studies: date: dated to the 3rd century AD by the palaeography of the Greek ( cf. Dieleman, Priests, Tongues, Rites, p. 41-44). Written by the same hand as P. Leiden 384 Vo (cf. OMRO 56, p. 51-53).

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Collections

→ Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities dem. I. 383
+→ London, British Museum EA 10070

∙Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities AMS 65 (previous)
∙Alexandria, Private collection d’Anastasi / Anastasy 1072 (1857) (previous)

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