Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Coptic Museum 4958 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Recto: Prayer of Mary in Bartos (protection and exorcism) |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | TM (8/9/2020) |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
401 – 900 |
| Date notes: | 4th-10th century according to TM (13/11/2018); Placeholder date as manuscript is essentially unpublished and so undated. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A11 |
| Archive name: | Coptic Museum Archive (?) |
| State of edition: | Unpublished. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | |
| Folding pattern: | Rolled. |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, conserved in smaller fragments (Meyer 2004: p. 373). |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, unclear text on verso. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Cairo, Coptic Museum |
| Collection History: | Acquired on February 23, 1948, from the French-Egyptian dealer Phocion Tano (Meyer 2004: p. 372). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
72 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | Archive is extremely hypothetical, based on shared origin. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin. “Mary Dissolving Chains in Coptic Museum Papyrus 4958 and Elsewhere.” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, Leiden, August 27-September 2, 2000, edited by Jacques van der Vliet and Matt Immerzeel. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Dep. Oosterse Studies, 2004, p. 369–376. |
| General: | Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Sethians and Their Texts in Christian Egypt in the 4th and 5th Centuries.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 86 (2020): 110-112. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 108318 |
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 (13/11/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (12/9/2019); MPS (8/9/2020); KD (24/9/2021) |