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Papyrus 125
- Record Id:
- 040-002104505
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000321
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143122763.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 125
- Title:
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Account of Expenses (P.Lond. I 125 ro., TM 33213), and Magical Text (P.Lond. I 125 vo., Pap.Graec.Mag. (2) II 11a, TM 64578, LDAB 5808)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Lond. I 125 ro., TM 33213): Account of expenses of an estate, recording payments made to various individuals and stated in artabas of wheat; dated to July 336.
Verso (P.Lond. I 125 vo., Pap.Graec.Mag. (2) II 11a, TM 64578, LDAB 5808): Magical text, Apollonius of Tyana’s old serving woman, with instructions on how to evoke a goddess, and have her turned into an old woman who will be at the service of the person using the spell. Assigned to the fourth or fifth century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104505 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 125 : Account of Expenses (P.Lond. I 125 ro., TM 33213), and Magical Text (P.Lond. I 125 vo., Pap.Graec.Mag. (2) II 11a, TM 64578, LDAB 5808) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0043]/040-002104505
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A fragment of a light-brown papyrus roll, bearing writing on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. Damage is located along the vertical folds. The front preserves three columns, the third of which is mutilated; upper and lower margins are extant. The back contains two columns, which are complete; all margins are extant. The intercolumn is irregular. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143122763.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 276 x 437 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 335 x 510 mm.
Script: Ro: Thin, flowing cursive hand. Vo: Somewhat rough and irregular cursive hand, thicker in places.
- 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 125 ro.
P.Lond. I 125 vo.
Pap.Graec.Mag. (2) II 11a - 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. 391.
Recto
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 192-194, no. 125 ro.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 232-233.
A. Chastagnol, ‘Remarques sur les salaires et rémunérations au IVe siècle’, Publications de l'École Française de Rome 37-2 (1980), pp. 215-233 (p. 230).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 81.
R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1993), p. 126.
F. Morelli, Olio e retribuzioni nell'Egitto tardo (V-VIII d.C.) (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli 1996), p. 1, n. 3.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 97.
Verso:
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 123-125, no. 125 vo.
K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechische Zauberpapyri 2 (Stuttgart: Teubner 1974), no. 11a.
E. L. Bowic, ‘Apollonius of Tyana: Tradition and Reality’,in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt XI 16.2 (Berlin: De Gruyter 1978), pp. 1652-1699 (p. 1686).
J. Bergman, ‘Nephthys découverte dans un papyrus magique (PGM XIa.)’, in Mélanges Adolphe Gutbub (Montpellier: Editions de I'universite de Montpellier 1984), pp. 1-11.
H. D. Betz, The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1992), pp. 150-151, no. XIa.
U. Horak, Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere I (Wien: A. Holzhausen 1992), p. 246, no. 197.
K. Dosoo, ‘A History of the Theban Magical Library’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (2016), pp. 251-274 (p. 265).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)