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Record Details

Inventory Number
P.Mich.inv. 6666
Processing Number
2920
Section/Side
Verso
Image Side
Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side
Verso; Recto contains a few illegible traces of writing.
Connections
-
Material
Pap
Size
12 x 5.8 cm.
Items
1
Lines
1-14
Mounted
Yes
Negative
Yes
Conservation Status
A piece of about 4.2 cm. is missing from the upper right. The damage to the papyrus is nearly total in l. 14, where not a single letter is legible; the traces do not seem to be the impression, resulting from folding, of a previous line. To judge from the space (ca. 16-18 letters), if any part of the preserved charm was repeated here, it was therapeusate Elenen.
The shading on the papyrus is uneven; it is dark on the extreme left side and the right half, but light around the center and center left. The papyrus appears to have been folded once from the top towards the bottom and twice from the bottom towards the top. The folded papyrus may then have been rolled, bound with thread and attached to the body.
Palaeographic Description
For the probably 3rd century hand, cf. W. Schubart, Pap. Gr. Berol. Abb. 40 = PGM I. Schubart (Gr. Pal., 134) assigns this hand to the third century, whereas earlier it was thought to be 4th or 5th century (see also PGM I intro.). Three stars and a lunar crescent, such as surround the text of this charm, may be found e.g. in Delatte-Derchain, Entailles Mag., nos. 296, 301. The stars are, characteristically, eight-rayed, cf. H. G. Gundel, Weltbild und Astrologie, 55 note 21.
Status
published
Library
Ann Arbor

Contents

Date
IIIrd century A.D.
Origin
unknown
Provenance
unknown
Acquisition
purchased from Nahman through H.I. Bell in 1934
Language
Greek
Genre
Sub-literary
Author
unknown
Type of Text/Title of Work
Magic charm
Content
Magical amulet against illnesses. In a tautological language attested in other magical texts, lines 3-5 contain a command to the god(s) to heal a certain Helene from "every disease" and various kinds of fever.
Subject Headings
Magic, Egyptian.
Persons
Helene.
Geographica
-
Translation
(Lines 3-5): "Lord gods, heal Helene, whom [NN] bore, from every illness and every (onslaught of) shivering and fever, ephemeral, quotidian, tertian, quartan [?]."

Information on Publications

Publications
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections
Diss Daniel RW 1981 85-99 SB XVI 13019 Daniel RW, Diss, 85-99, 1981 -- SB XVI 13019
ZPE 50 Daniel RW 1983 147-54 Pl VIIc Daniel RW, ZPE 50, 147-54, 1983, Pl VIIc -- BL IX, 296 (bibliography) BL IX, 296 (bibliography)

Information on Publications--Further Republications

Further Republications
Rep Editor - Daniel RW-Maltomini F; Rep Ser. - Supplementum Magicum 1; 1990; pg. 11-3

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography
LDAB 5341

Cataloging

Cataloger
TC
Year Begin
200
Year End
299

Technical Details

Image Size
4025 x 4488
File Size
2 MB
Record
2920
Link to this Item
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2920/6666v.tif

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