| Archive name: | Naqlun Hermitage Magical Archive |
Trismegistos Archive ID: 
Page on the database Trismegistos Collections for the archive. |
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| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
451 – 500 |
| Provenance: | Hermitage 44, Naqlun, Egypt |
| Trismegistos Place ID:
Page on the database Trismegistos Places for the place of provenance. |
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| Manuscripts: | KYP M63 64 65 |
| Classification: | These manuscripts comprise an “archive”, meaning that they were likely brought together and deposited by an ancient person or persons. |
| Description: | A group of texts found in Hermitage 44 of Naqlun in the Fayum, inhabited by the monk Phoibammon. |
| Acquisition: | Excavated in Hermitage 44 of Naqlun in the Fayum, 1.2 km from the Church of the Archangel Gabriel. |
| Dating: | All manuscripts date to between 451-500 CE, the period of the occupation of the site (Godlewski 2000). |
| Language/dialect: | Naqlun N. 45/95 (M64) and Naqlun N. 44/95 (M65) are both written in non-standard Sahidic Coptic. Naqlun N. 41/97 is written in both Coptic and Greek. |
| Materiality/composition: | All three manuscripts are parchment, but no other clear similarities in format can be observed (KD 20/11/2020). |
| Content: | Naqlun N.45/95 (M64) contains an applied curse; Naqlun N.44/95 (M65) seems to contain an applied separation spell; Naqlun N.41/97 (M63) contains a reconciliation procedure and healing recipes. |
| Discussion: | Only one Coptic curse is published (Naqlun N.45/95 = M64); the remaining texts comprise a Greek/Coptic formulary containing a reconciliation procedure and healing recipes (Naqlun N.41/97 = M63) and a broken Coptic parchment, perhaps containing a separation procedure (Naqlun N.44/95 = M65). An edition of these texts, along with other documentary texts found in the hermitage, is in preparation by Jacques van der Vliet. |
| Bibliography: |
Godlewski, Włodzimierz. “The Hermitage of Apa Phoibamon.” In Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz and Janusz A. Ostrowski (editors), Civilisations du Bassin Méditerranéen: Hommages à Joachim Sliwa. Krakow: Université Jagellone Institut d’Archéologie, 2000, p. 91-98. |
| Edit History: | KD (29/9/2020); EL (29/9/2020); KD (20/11/2020) |