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TM 64343 / LDAB 5564 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/64343

also known as Great Magical Papyrus of Paris; Papyrus Magique de Paris; PGM IV; Mertens-Pack 00746.000; Mertens-Pack 02067.000; Mertens-Pack 01865.000; Mithras Liturgy

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Date: first half 4th century AD: AD 300 - 350
Orsini (by letter)

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

Language/script: Greek / Old Coptic, drawing (paleography: transition from severe style to pointed majuscule (sloping))

Greek with Old Coptic sections

Material: papyrus

Book form: codex (36 fol.), single quire; columns per page: 1; number of lines per page: 54

Content (beta!): magical: "The Great Magical Papyrus of Paris", a magical handbook with hymns and astrological portion, a logos hebraikos and the "Mithras liturgy"

Authors / works: Homerus, Ilias (quoted)

Culture & genre: science, religion — magic, astronomy, + poetry, lyric hymns, divination (religion: classical, christian, jewish, Egyptian background)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

Note: drawing

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, KyprianosKyprianos Magical Text Database => 1447 links in TM, MP3Mertens-Pack 3 => 7426 links in TM [2][3], WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM, other

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