P.Mich.inv. 1523 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 1523
- Processing Number
- 1459
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso contains traces of ink
- Connections
- -
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 21.5 x 31.2 cm.
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 1-18
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- This light to medium-brown papyrus is regularly cut on all sides; 7 vertical folds and one horizontal in the middle of the sheet. The panel along the left edge was probably exposed and now most of the lower part of this panel is missing. (TC)
- Palaeographic Description
- Written in a large, clear but somewhat casual/cramped hand with some attachment of the letters. (TC)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IVth or Vth century A.D.
- Origin
- probably south of Asyut, Upper Egypt, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- probably south of Asyut, Upper Egypt, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- November 1924
- Language
- Coptic
- Genre
- subliterary; magic
- Author
- Theodora
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- curse
- Content
- This papyrus contains a curse against a certain Jor and his wife
- Persons
- Theodora;
- Jor;
- wife of Jor;
- Koloje;
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- "I beseech, I adjure, I beg you, holy Martyrs,
- I Theodora, this wronged woman,
- I bring this indictment against Jor and his wife,
- I cast myself down before your good selves,
- That you may do my will with Jor and his wife,
- And smite them and scatter them abroad,
- And that the curse, and the worm and the scattering abroad may overtake them,
- And that the wrath of God may overtake Jor and his wife and all that is his,
- And that a great tribulation and a great outcry may come upon his house and his wife.
- May you lay your hands upon him,
- And may the mighty hand and the exalted arm descend upon them all at once, him and his wife.
- Holy Martyrs, may you hasten and execute my judgment upon them.
- Send your powers and your miracles.
- Holy Martyrs, may you execute my judgment . . . . Koloje."
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.1459
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections Orientalia 4 Worrell WH 1935 3-4 Worrell WH, Orientalia 4, 3-4, 1935
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- TC
- Year Begin
- 300
- Year End
- 499
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 5672 x 7222
- File Size
- 5 MB
- Record
- 1459
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1459/1523ro.tif
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- Manifest
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:1459
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"P.Mich.inv. 1523; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1459/1523ro.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2025.