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Papyrus 47
- Record Id:
- 040-002104465
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0002f5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468702.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 47
- Title:
- Magical Handbook (PGM I 6, P.Lond. I 47, TM 60673, LDAB 1798, MP3 1867)
- Scope & Content:
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Portion of the same magical handbook as P.Berol. inv. 5026, with an invocation to Apollo. The handbook continues with recipes for obtaining oracles and hymns. Homer’s Iliad I 37-41 is quoted; with marginal notes.
On the back are portions of three lines from another text.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104465 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 47 : Magical Handbook (PGM I 6, P.Lond. I 47, TM 60673, LDAB 1798, MP3 1867) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0014]/040-002104465
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Four fragments from the same papyrus roll as P.Berol. inv. 5026, light-brown; written on both sides. On the front, there is one column of 47 lines along the fibres, with lines 1-23 lacking the beginnings; this column precedes the ones on the Berlin papyrus. Lines are uneven and of different length; the left margin is wide. Portions of 3 lines written along the fibres are visible on the back. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with a small opening on the back to show the writing.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468702.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 2nd century-3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 340 x 220 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 255 mm.
Script: Recto: Regular upright hand with some cursive traits, in iron gall ink; marginal note in carbon ink (Chronopoulou 2019). Verso: Cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Memphis (?), Egypt. Purchased from Anastasi in September 1839.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 47
PGM I 6 - Publications:
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List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1843), p. 22.
C. Wessely, 'Griechische Zauberpapyrus von Paris und London', Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften,Philologisch-historische Classe 36 (1888), pp. 149-150.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 81-83, no. 47, with pl.
K. Preisendanz, ‘Die griechischen Zauberpapyr’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 8 (1927), pp. 104-167 (p. 117).
K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae I (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner, 1928), pp. 198-200, no. vi, pp. 244-245, Hymnen 10, p. 248, Hymnen 13 and 14.
H. D. Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, including the Demotic Spells (Chigaco-London: Chigaco University Press 1986), pp. 110-112, no. 6.
M. L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (München-Leipzig: K.G. Saur 2001), 113, w44.
M. Monaca, ‘Una «Sibilla» nei Papiri Magici? Per una rilettura di PGM VI’, MHNH: revista internacional de investigación sobre magia y astrología antiguas 11 (2011), pp. 360-370.
A. Monte, ‘Considerazioni su PGM II 1-12’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 57 (2011), pp. 55-61.
A. Monte, ‘Un manual di magia Greco a Berlino. Il papyrus Berolinensis Inv. 5026’, in M. De HaroSanchez (ed,), Ecrire la magie dans l'antiquité: Actes du colloque international (Liège, 13-15 octobre 2011) (Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège 2015), pp. 35-40.
K. Dosoo, ‘A History of the Theban Magical Library’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (2016), pp. 251–274 (pp. 264-265).
L. M. Bortolani, Magical hymns from Roman Egypt: a study of Greek and Egyptian traditions of divinity (New York: Cambridge University Press 2016), pp. 169-174, 191-201.
E. Chronopoulou, ‘PGM VI: A Lost Part of PGM II’, Symbolae Osloenses 91 (2017), pp. 118-125.
E. Chronopoulou, ‘The authorship of PGM VI (P.Lond. I 47) + II (P.Berol. inv. 5026)’, in A. Nodar, S. Torallas Tovar (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Papyrology. Barcelona, 1-6 August 2016 (Scripta Orientalia 3) (Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Monserrat 2019), pp. 325-332.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)