Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Mon. Epiph. 591 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) (?) |
Contents: | 1. A Ro ll. 1-3, B Ro ll. 1-2: Gospel of Matthew 8.14; perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
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Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 601 – 700 |
Date notes: | de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 210). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A25 |
Archive name: | Monastery of Epiphanius |
State of edition: | Published |
Image: |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | No dimensions provided in publication. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Incomplete. Two fragments, apparently broken at all sides. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 2 columns recto (?), 3 and 2 surviving lines.. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Monastery of Epiphanios, Memnoneia – Djeme (Thebes west), Egypt (TM places ID: 1341) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Monastery of Epiphanios, Memnoneia – Djeme (Thebes west), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1341) |
Present Location: | New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Collection History: | Acquired through the Metropolitan Museum’s excavations at the Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes in 1911-1912, 1913-1914. Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in the division of finds (Crum & White 1926: p. v). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 247 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Crum, Walter E., and Evelyn H. G. White (eds.). The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes. Part II. Coptic Ostraca and Papyri. Greek Ostraca and Papyri. Vol. 2. New York: Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926, p. 126, 588, no. 591. |
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Trismegistos ID: | 61616 |
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 | 1100 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 172 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (25/10/2019); ST (5/7/2021); ST (12/7/2021); KD (3/8/2021) |