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Papyrus 123
- Record Id:
- 040-002104503
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00031f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143122736.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 123
- Title:
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Magical Text (P.Lond. I 123, PGM (2) II 9, 30, TM 64577, LDAB 5807)
- Scope & Content:
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Magical text containing an invocation to the Gnostic deity Bainchoch; the first line, then repeated in line 12, is iambic. On the back there is a sketch of two figures: a baboon and a divinity (Horus or Harpocrates?) with hawk head holding an ‘ankh’ in his hand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104503 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 123 : Magical Text (P.Lond. I 123, PGM (2) II 9, 30, TM 64577, LDAB 5807) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0041]/040-002104503
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A light-brown papyrus sheet, fully preserved, containing writing on one side across the fibres and a drawing on the other side; mounted in glass.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143122736.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0499
- Date Range:
- 4th century-5th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 95 x 279 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 155 x 330 mm.
Script: Uncial hand with cursive tendency, irregular with several blunders.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased with Papyri 121-125 from Bywater, Tanqueray and Company on 12 May 1888. The papyri had been brought from Egypt by Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (b. 1857, d. 1934).
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 123
PGM (2) II 30
PGM (2) II 9 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 390.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 120-121, no. 123..
K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die Griechische Zauberpapyri, Vol. II (Stuttgart: Teubner 1974), pp. 50-51, no. 9, and p. 266, no. 30.
H. D. Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1986), pp. 148-149.
U. Horak, Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere I (Wien: A. Holzhausen 1992), no. 195.
Metadata provided by the 2018 Heidelberg Research Webinar on BL Greek Papyri, funded by the MWK Baden-Württemberg and taught by R. Ast and L. Berkes.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)