papyrus

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Object Type
Museum number: EA10808
Description: Papyrus; Egyptian language transliterated into Greek script containing some Demotic signs. The magical text has been interpreted as containing three spells pronounced against three demons to ward off fever or a charm for getting favour.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2ndC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Oxyrhynchus (city)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 34.05 centimetres (Mounted in sandwiched glass); Height: 29.10 centimetres (papyrus); Weight: 1124 grammes (Mounted in sandwiched glass); Width: 22.55 centimetres (Mounted in sandwiched glass); Width: 16.80 centimetres (papyrus); Depth: 0.80 centimetres (Mounted in sandwiched glass)
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject: magical; medical
Curator's comments: Published: J. Osing, Der spätägyptische Papyrus BM 10808 (AA 33 1976) J. Dieleman 'Ein spataegyptisches magisches Handbuch: Eine neue PDM oder PGM?', in Res severa verum gaudia (Fs Zauzich; Leuven, Peeters 2004), 121-8. Val Hinckley Sederholm, Papyrus British Museum 10808 and its Cultural and Religious Setting (PdA 24, 2006) cf. Aufrere, in Egyptes ... (Montpellier 1999): 56-7. New study
Bibliographic references: Hinckley Sederholm 2006 / Papyrus British Museum 10808 and its cultural and religious setting; Osing 1976 / Der spätägyptische Papyrus BM 10808 (reviewed by Shisha-Halevy, JEA 66 (1980): 181-86.); Volten 1953 / An Egyptian text in Greek characters; Crum 1942 / An Egyptian text in Greek characters; Providence 1989 / Beyond the pharaohs (no. 109); Parkinson 1999 / Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment (fig. 21); Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (108583) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/108583); Quack 2009 / Review of V Sederholm, Papyrus British Museum 10808
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2013, - 2014 21 Sep - 05 Jan, Bristol Museum + Art Gallery, Roman Empire: Power + People 2014, 25 Jan - 27 Apr, Norwich Castle, Roman Empire + People 2014, 15 May - 31 Aug, Coventry, Herbert Museum, Roman Empire + People 2014 -2015, 20 Sep - 4 Jan, Manchester, Roman Empire + People 2015, 24 Jan - 10 May, Dundee, Roman Empire + People 2015, 30 May - 13 Sep, Tyne & Wear, Roman Empire + People
Condition: Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus Black ink Displayed in Room 63 until 1997 Checked for loan to Munich 2006 Mount Details: Sandwich: glass Binding: magic tape, copydex self-adhesive carpet tape Object Priority: A Mount Priority: A Overall Condition: A Curatorial condition comment: fair
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1968
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA10808
Registration number: 1968,0213.1
Conservation

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