Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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BM EA 10434,b |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-5: Love spell (?). |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes. Dosoo (2024) notes particularly Theban traits in the Sahidic. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
701 – 900 |
| Date notes: | Dated to the eight to ninth century by radio-carbon dating (Zellman-Rohrer 2022: p. 1051). 501-700 (Crum 1934: p. 51) followed by TM (7/1/2019) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A19 |
| Archive name: | London Hay Collection |
| State of edition: | Published; new edition in preparation by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer. |
| Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10434-b |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Leather |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6.5 | Width: 15.3 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Zellmann-Rohrer (fc.); 6.5 x 15.3 (Collection Website 10/8/2020); 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches (Crum 1934: p. 200) |
| Folding pattern: | 6 (?) vertical and 3 horizontal creases (EL from photograph 8/9/2020). |
| State of preservation: | Complete. |
| 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, 5 lines. |
| Hand: | London Hay Scribe Copyist 3 |
| Findspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355) |
| Place of purchase: | Luxor, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 576) |
| Writingspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Purchased from Robert James Hay in 1868 (Collection Website 4/9/2020), who perhaps acquired them in Thebes (Crum 1934: p. 51). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
193 |
| Collection website: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection |
| Notes/Discussion: | EA 10414,a and 10414,b were previously mounted together (Collection Website 10/8/2020) |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Crum, Walter E. “Magical Texts in Coptic II.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 3/4 (1934): 200, no. D. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 170, no. 80 (additional piece). |
| General: | Boud’hors, “Bulletin Critique: Anne. Elisabeth R. O’Connell (éd.), The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice, Londres, The British Museum”, Antiquité Tardive 31 (2023) 419-421. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874169 |
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” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
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: | MPS (7/1/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (6/2/2020); EL (10/8/2020); KD (26/4/2022); JS (28/02/2023); MPS (1/3/2023); KD (23/1/2025) |