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Papyrus 124

Record Id:

040-002104504

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000320

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100143122753.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 124

Title:

Magical Spells (P.Lond. I 124, Pap.Graec.Mag.(2) II 10, TM 64532, LDAB 5760)

Scope & Content:

Magical spells serving various purposes:

Column 1: Love spell;

Column 2, lines 1-5: Spell to restrain anger, with drawing of the metal leaf (lamella) to be inscribed with charakteres and letters.

Column 2, line 6-end: Spell of submission of Apollon, with the inscribed metal leaf (lamella) containing a frog’s tongue to be put into the right sandal.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104504

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 124 : Magical Spells (P.Lond. I 124, Pap.Graec.Mag.(2) II 10, TM 64532, LDAB 5760)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0042]/040-002104504

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Sheet of light-brown papyrus, lacking the left hand-side, damaged along the vertical folds; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. It preserves two columns, the first lacking the beginnings of the lines. Upper, right and lower margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0300

End Date:

0499

Date Range:

4th century-5th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 250 x 300 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 305 x 360 mm.

Script: Thin cursive hand, thicker in the first lines of column 1; somewhat rough and at times compressed at the end of the lines.

Custodial History:

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 124
PGM X
Pap.Graec.Mag. 2 10

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 391.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 121-123, no. 124.

K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechische Zauberpapyri 2 (Stuttgart: Teubner 1974), no. 10.

J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), p. 336, no. 1078 descr.

H. D. Betz, The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1992), pp. 149-150, no. X.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)