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TM 60204 / LDAB 1321 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/60204 Copy URI to clipboard

also known as Mertens-Pack 00552.000; Mertens-Pack 00552.000; Mertens-Pack 01868.000; Mertens-Pack 06006.000; Mertens-Pack 01868.000; Mertens-Pack 06006.000

previously also TM 63951 (joined)

Metadata

Date: AD 250 - 320

Provenance: Thebes ? - Egypt (4th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]
cf. BASP 53 (2016), p. 266 n. 52

Language/script: Greek

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 25,33

Content (beta!): magical: handbook with different spells, Homeromanteion

Authors / works: Homerus, Ilias: This link will bring you to Perseus, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). (quoted)
Homerus, Odyssea: passim (quoted)

Culture & genre: religion + science — magic, divination + medicine + poetry, epic, lyric (religion: classical, Egyptian background)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: opisthograph

Note: old LDAB 5166

More info: BLBritish Library Digitized Manuscripts => 1417 links in TM, 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]

Publications

Pap. Graec. Mag.(2) 2 7 (Preisendanz, Karl - 1974) [default]

∙ZPE 106 (1995), p. 107-122 (Maltomini, Franco - 1995) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Betz, The Greek magical papyri in translation p. 112-145 no. PGM 7 (Martin, Hubert Jr. / Grese, W. C. / Kotansky, Roy D. / Hock, Ronald F. / O'Neil, Edward N. / Scarborough, John / Hershbell, J. P. / Smith, Morton / Aune, David E. - 1992)

∙Pap. Graec. Mag.(2) 2 Hymnen 15 p. 249 [VII] (Preisendanz, Karl - 1974; extract of PGM 7, 668-680)

∙Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) 11 (1925), p. 82-83 (Eitrem, Samson - 1925; col. 30 only) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙P. Lond. 1 p. 83-115 no. 121 (Kenyon, Frederic G. - 1893) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Wessely, Neue griechische Zauberpapyri (Denkschr. Wien. Akad. 42, 2) p. 16-55 (Wessely, Carl - 1893)

∙Allen / Sutton / West, Odyssea w1 (Allen, Thomas W. / Sutton, D. H. / West, Martin Litchfield - 2017) (= catalogue only)

∙Allen / Sutton / West, Odyssea w5 (Allen, Thomas W. / Sutton, D. H. / West, Martin Litchfield - 2017) (= catalogue only)

∙Horak, Illuminierte Papyri Catalogue ViP 193 (p. 246) descr. (Horak, Ulrike - 1992) (= catalogue only)

∙van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens 1077 descr. (van Haelst, Joseph - 1976) (= catalogue only)

Photo: Facsimiles London I, pl.51-65; PGM 2 pl.I.1-4; CPF IV.2, pl.111; R. Phillips, In pursuit of invisibility, pl. 5

Content studies: R. Phillips, In pursuit of invisibility: ritual texts from Late Roman Egypt, American Studies in Papyrology 47, 2009, p. 110-115 (l. 619-622); C.A. Faraone, ZPE 144 (2003), p. 190 (l. 260-271); R. Martín Hernández, Estudios papirológicos, 2017, p. 117-134;R. Gordon, in : L.M. Bortolani et alii, Cultural plurality in ancient magical texts and practices (2019), p. 106-123;A. Mastrocinque e.a., Ancient Magic, then and now (2020), p. 380-382

Script & book studies: G. B. D'Alessio, ZPE 134 (2001), p. 38; A. Nodar - S. Torallas-Tovar, in : E. Suarez e.a., Los papiros magicos griegos (2015), p. 60-61; R. Martin Hernandez, Segno e testo 13 (2015), p. 147-164 [on the lay-out of the papyrus]

Other bibliography: Martin, CdE 95 (2020), p. 180-181 no. 97; Wilburn, Pap. Congr. XXIX (Lecce 2019), 2022, p. 1037-1048

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