Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Berlin P. 8331 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (unclear) |
| Contents: | Original Use: 1. Ro ll. 1-8: Bilingual (Greek-Arabic) protocol. Re-use: 2. Ro ll. 1-3: “Seizure of the eye” (for protection against the evil eye?) |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Fayumic (?) |
| Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
685 – 800 |
| Date notes: | Terminus post quem from protocol dating to the governorship of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān (685-705 CE) (KD); 801-900 (Beltz 1983: p. 78) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A14 |
| Archive name: | Berlin Library |
| State of edition: | Published. No published image. New edition desirable. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 17 | Width: 11.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Maximum height and width (EL from autopsy 20/11/2019); (Beltz 1983: p. 78); width 11 cm (Erman 1904: p. 15) |
| Folding pattern: | 3 vertical and 6/7 horizontal creases. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, considerable damage along creases and large part of right-side lost, but text restorable. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto (↓) (re-use), 3 lines. |
| Hand: | Hand F (Dosoo forthcoming) |
| Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Place of purchase: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 332) |
| Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Present Location: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
| Collection History: | Purchased by Dr. Reinhardt in the Fayum (Erman 1895: p. 44); Beltz, probably mistakenly, claims that it was acquired from the antiquities market in Cairo in the same year (1983: p. 78). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
40 |
| Collection website: | http://berlpap.smb.museum/ |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpapyri der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 29 (1983): p. 78, no. I 551. |
| Translations: | Dosoo, Korshi. “Horus, Sabaoth, Satanas: La « Bibliothèque de Berlin » et autres fonds d’archives magiques de l’Égypte romaine et les premières siècles de la période islamique”, in La magie et les sciences occultes dans le monde islamique edited by Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming). |
| General: | Erman, Adolf. “Ein koptischer Zauberer.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 33 (1895): 43–46. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 108888 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
71 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
2.57 |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| 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: | EL (24/10/2018; 20/11/2019); KD (18/3/2019); MPS (1/7/2019); KD (8/5/2019); KD (1/6/2020); EL (21/8/2020); KD (14/5/2024) |