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Papyrus 122
- Record Id:
- 040-002104502
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00031e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058108184.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 122
- Title:
- Collection of Magical Spells (P. Lond. I. 122.; PGM VIII; TM 59324)
- Scope & Content:
-
col. 1-2: Binding love spell of Astrapsoukos
col. 2-3: Request for a Dream Oracle to Besas.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Papyri Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104502 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 122 : Collection of Magical Spells (P. Lond. I. 122.; PGM VIII; TM 59324) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0040]/040-002104502
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragment of a roll, written on one side only, mounted in perplex, housed in a paper case.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058108184.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 280x490 mm, mounted under perplex in a cardboard case.
Ruling: Written in three columns containing an average of 42 lines each.
Script: Uncial ("Rather uneducated and irregular" P. Lond. I, p. 65.)
Decoration: Representation of a demon at the lower right edge of the sheet.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt (Hermopolis, cf. Catalaogue of the Additions, p. 390)
Provenance: Bought from a "a native" by Bywater, Tanqueray & Co and sold to E. A. Wallis Budge of the British Museum in Egypt, 23 May 1888.
- Former External References:
- PGM VIII
- Former Internal References:
- P. Lond. I. 122
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_122
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893, (London: British Museum, 1894), 390.
Carl Wessely, 'Griechische Zauberpapyrus von Paris und London', Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philologisch-historische Classe 36,2 (1888), pp. 55-58.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I, (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 115-120. no. CXXII.
Richard Reitzenstein, Poimandres: Studien zur griechisch-ägyptische und frühchristlichen Literatur, (Leipzig: Teubner, 1904), 20-21.
Armand Delatte, 'Études sur la magie grecque. V. Akephalos Theos'. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 38 (1914), pp. 189-249.
Theodor Hopfner, Griechisch-Ägyptischer Offenbarungszauber, II. (Leipzig: H. Haessel, 1921), §185.
Samson Eitrem, The Greek Magical Papyri in the British Museum, (Kristiania: Dybwad, 1923), 21-22.
Franz Joseph Dölger, Sol Salutis: Gebet und Gesang im christlichen Altertum, (Muenster: Aschendorff, 1925), pp. 278-279.
Karl Preisendanz, Der kopflose Gott, (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1926), 48-50.
Karl Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae II, (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner, 1931), pp. 45-50.
Hans Dieter Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (Chicago, 1986), pp. 145-148.
Ulrike Horak, Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. 1. (Wien: Holzhausen, 1992) p. 246, no. 194.
Richard Gordon, 'Shaping the Text: Innovation and Authority in Graeco-Egyptian Malign Magic', In H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, H. W. Singor, F. T. Van Straten & J. H. M. Strubbe, (eds.), Kykeon. Studies in honour of H. S. Versnel, (Leiden: Brill, 2002), pp. 69-112: 100
Raquel Martín Hernández, 'Reading Magical Drawings in the Greek Magical Papyri.' In P. Schubert (ed.), Actes du 26e Congrès international de papyrologie Genève, 16–21 août 2010, (Genève: Droz, 2012), pp. 491-498.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)