Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | 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. |
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. | 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: | Crum, Walter E. “Magical Texts in Coptic I.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 1/2 (1934): 51–53. |
Trismegistos ID: | 874169 |
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: | 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) |