Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PCM 1 16 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary ?) |
Contents: | 1. Ostraca 1-3, recto (ll. 1-40): Love spell using narrative charm consisting of story about Horus and Isis. |
Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 22.5 | Width: 19 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | 3 ostraca; first 21.5 x 12 cm; second 22.5 x 19 cm; third 19.5 x 11 cm (Blumell and Dosoo 2018: p. 210, 212). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 3 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 3 ostraca each with 1 column on their convex faces, 40 lines in total. |
Hand: | O. BYU Mag. Hand |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Provo, Brigham Young University |
Collection History: | Donated by Aziz Atiya in 1980-1981 (Blumell and Dosoo 2018: p. 202-203). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 1760 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Blumell, Lincoln and Dosoo, Korshi. “Horus, Isis, and the Dark-Eyed Beauty: A Series of Magical Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection.” Archiv für Papyrusforchung 64 (2018): 199-259. |
Translations: | |
General: | Hevesi, Krisztina. “A Few Remarks on the Persistence of Native Egyptian historiolae in Coptic Magical Texts.” In Current Research in Egyptology 2018: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 25-28 June 2018, edited by Marie Peterková Hlouchová, Dana Bělohoubková, Jiří Honzl and Věra Nováková. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019, p. 42-54. |
Trismegistos ID: | 756246 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | ||||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (2/10/2018); EL (29/3/2019); MPS (4/7/2019); MPS (8/9/2020); MPS (25/3/2021); KD (14/9/2022); KD (20/11/2023) |