P.Mich.inv. 5302 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 5302
- Processing Number
- 2433
- Section/Side
- a; Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso has some traces; offsets?
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 10 x 7.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- 10
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- complete; partly faded
- Palaeographic Description
- rapid, documentary script with much Verschleifung. Written across the fibres
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IVth century A.D.
- Origin
- Unknown place, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 28-242*-P
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Subliterary: Magic
- Author
- Unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Fever Amulet
- Content
- Talisman invoking the Hebrew deity, seven archangels and two personified magical words, beseeching them all to cure a certain Sarapion of fevers of all kinds; there are possible Gnostic influence
- Persons
- Sarapion, son of (unnamed father) and Allous
- Geographica
- -
- Translation
- Iao, Sabaoth, Adonai! I beseech Anatiel, Raphael, Gabriel, Suriel, Azariel, Uriel, . . . aubrael, Ablanathanalba, Sesengembarpharanges. These are the Potentates of God and (the) Powers of the cure. Cure Sarapion, whom Allous bore, from every three-day fever-chill, every-other-day (fever-chill), quotidian (fever-chill) and from every sickness every day(?) . . .
Information on Publications
- Publications
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Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich XVIII Brashear WM 1996 768 Pl. VI Brashear WM, PMich XVIII, 768, 1996, Pl. VI
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 300
- Year End
- 399
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3000 x 2250
- File Size
- 245 KB
- Record
- 2433
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2433/5302ar.tif-2
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/apis:2433
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"P.Mich.inv. 5302; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2433/5302ar.tif-2. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2025.