Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Crum ST 18 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-12 – Vo ll. 1-11: Amulet for the protection of animals and people. |
| 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 – 750 |
| Date notes: | KD (?); Collection website 395-640 (8/9/2020); TM 6h-8th century (8/9/2020) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A9 |
| Archive name: | Frange Archive (TT 29) |
| State of edition: | Published, new edition desirable (no translation or image) |
| Image: | https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/collection-search-results/?item_id=304765 |
| Form: | Ostracon (limestone) |
| Material: | Ostracon (limestone) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 14.6 | Width: 10.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | From inspection by Korshi Dosoo (29/10/2018). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| 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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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto 12 lines, 1 column verso 11 lines. |
| Hand: | Frange |
| Findspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | TT 29, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes, Egypt (TM places ID: 2355) |
| Present Location: | Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland |
| Collection History: | Likely found by Alexander Henry Rhind while working in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in 1856-1857 (Collection Website, 8/10/2018; information from Margaret Maitland 30/10/2018). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
468 |
| Collection website: | https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/collection-search-results/?item_id=304765 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Crum, Walter E. Short Texts from Coptic Ostraca and Papyri . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1921, p. 6, no. 18. |
| Translations: | Boud’ hors, Anne & Chantal Heurtel. Les Ostraca Coptes de la TT 29 autour du moine Frangé (2 vols). Vol. 1. Brussels: CReA- Patrimoine, 2010, p. 158 (French). |
| General: | Murray, Margaret A. Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities Edinburgh. Edinburgh: 1900, p. 50, cat. 914. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 111157 |
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: | KD (18/10/2018); KD (29/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (9/7/2019); MPS (8/9/2020); MPS (9/12/2020) |