Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
|
O. Frange 191 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Documentary (letter) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-5 -Vo ll. 1-6: Letter from Frange instructing the recipient to attach a blessing to the neck of a mare. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | TM (7/9/2020) |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
701 – 750 |
| Date notes: | TM (15/11/2018) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A9 |
| Archive name: | Frange Archive (TT 29) |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Ostracon (limestone) |
| Material: | Ostracon (limestone) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 3.5 | Width: 5.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Boud’hors, Heurtel 2010: p. 158. |
| 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.
|
2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto and verso. 5 lines recto, 6 lines verso. |
| Hand: | Frange |
| Findspot: | TT 29, Thebes West, Egypt (TM places ID: 1341) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Thebes West, Egypt (TM places ID: 1341) |
| Present Location: | Egypt, Thebes, Theban Tomb (TT) 29 |
| Collection History: | Found with approximately 1300 other Coptic ostraca in TT 29 between 1999-2006 by the team of the University of Brussels. (Aït-Kaci et al. 2008: p. 348. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
0 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | Not strictly magical text, but relevant for understanding of National Musem of Scotland A.1956.318. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Boud’hors, Anne, and Chantal Heurtel. Les Ostraca Coptes de la TT 29 autour du moine Frangé. Vol. 1. Brussels: CReA- Patrimoine, 2010, p. 158-159, no. 191. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Aït-Kaci, Lili, Anne Boud’hors, and Heurtel, Chantal. “Study of the Coptic Ostraca.” In Report on the Eighth Season of Excavation and Conservation in the Theban Tombs of Amenemope TT 29 and Sennefer TT 96A in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna (January 2 – February 19, 2006), edited by Roland Tefnin. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 82 (2008): 348–349. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 141113 |
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 (15/11/2018); KD (20/1/2020); EL (20/4/20); MPS (7/9/2020) |