Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Berlin P. 8327 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-27: Invocation probably for salvation from illness, demons and troubles; textual similarities to the “Prayer of Mary in Bartos”. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
651 – 800 |
| Date notes: | Almost certainly 651-800, since part of Berlin Library, all of which have similar hands (KD); 801-900 (Beltz 1983: p. 76) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A14 |
| Archive name: | Berlin Library |
| State of edition: | Published. No image. New edition desirable. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 27.1 | Width: 21.1 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Maximum dimensions, combined height of maximum height of fragments (6.7+9.3+11.1) (EL from autopsy 21/11/2019); 30.5 x 20.5 cm (Beltz 1983: p. 76); 30 x 20 cm (Erman 1904: p. 7) |
| Folding pattern: | 2 vertical and 9 horizontal creases (KD 1/6/2020) |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, five fragments without joins, most of upper half lost (how much more is unclear), breaks principally along horizontal and vertical creases. |
| 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 (↓), 27 lines (fragments A-C 7 lines, fragment D 11 lines, fragment E 9 lines). |
| Hand: |
| 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. 76). |
| 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: | Probable purpose based on descriptions in other versions; other versions also instruct that formula is spoken over oil and water, and used to wash and anoint the patient. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpapyri der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 29 (1983): p. 76-77, no. I 549. |
| Translations: | Dosoo, Korshi. “Horus, Sabaoth, Satanas: La « Bibliothèque de Berlin » et autres fonds d’archives magiques de l’Égypte romaine et les premiers 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: | 108886 |
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” |
61 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
2.42 |
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)" |
108886 |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | EL (24/10/2018; 21/11/2019); MPS (25/4/2019); KD (8/5/2019); KD (1/6/2020); EL (21/8/2020) |