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Artefact ID	1697
TM ID	TM 64300
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Subliterary
Language	Greek
Description	P. Heid. 1 5, P. Heid. G 1359, PGM Christliches 14, van Haelst 1136: Onomasticum sacrum This papyrus (11 x 18 cm) is intact at the top border, it had been folded multiple times. The sheet has since fallen apart, the two remaining fragments were originally separated by a now missing strip. It contains an onomasticum sacrum, Hebraic biblical names words on the left with a Greek translation or explanation on the right, over 26 lines. The list is alphabetic, from Arima, Ariel and Azael over Judas, Jonathan and Joseph to Maana, Magabael and Melecheiel. While Deissmann 1905 considers the sheet’s use as an amulet, Festugière 1981 proposes it was a writing exercise. The verso is blank.
Selection criteria	Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian onomastics
Date from	300
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; the ed.pr. assigns the hand to the late 3rd/early 4th c.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown provenance; the Heidelberg papyrus collection was first established in 1897, purchased from Carl August Reinhardt. The papyri were recorded as having been found in the Fayyūm, Al-Ašmūnayn, Aḫmīm and al-Ǧabalain; this papyrus belongs to these.
Accession number	Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie P. G 1359

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Deissmann, Adolf. 1905. Die Septuaginta-Papyri und andere altchristliche Texte. Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung 1. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung. 86-93, No. 5. Plate 57c.

Additional bibliography
• de Bruyn, Theodore S., and Jitse H.F. Dijkstra. 2011. “Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Elements: A Checklist of Papyri, Parchments, Ostraka, and Tablets.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP) 48: 163-216. No. 111, 200-201.
• Deissmann, Adolf. 1908. Licht vom Osten. Das Neue Testament und die neuentdeckten Texte der hellenistisch-römischen Welt. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck). 297-298.
• Deissmann, Adolf. 1922. Light from the Ancient East: The New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman World. New York/London: Harper & Brothers. 405-406.
• Festugière, André-Jean. 1932/1981. L’Idéal Religieux des Grecs et l’Evangile. Paris: Libraire Lecoffre. 284n1.
• Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. 1994. Ancient Christian Magic. Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. 56-57, No. 37.
• Preisendanz, Karl. 1974. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. (PGM). Vol. 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner. 222-223, No. Christliches P 14.
• van Haelst, Joseph. 1976. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 347, No. 1136.
• Leclercq, Henri. 1937. "Papyrus." In Dictionnaire d'Archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie 13(1), fasc. 144–145, edited by Fernand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq. Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané, col. 1370-1520: col. 1437-1438, No. 28.
• Wessely, Carl. 1908. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme.” Patrologia Orientalis 4(2). 202-205, No. 27.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1697", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1697

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TM 64300 / LDAB 5520 DCLP (PN) Corpus of Paraliterary Papyri (CPP) Kyprianos M435 Heidelberger Papyrussammlung

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