Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | O. Crum 517 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Liturgical (hymns) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-6: Hymn on the Nativity. |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 601 – 800 |
Date notes: | Mihálykó 2019: p. 308. |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A89 |
Archive name: | Apa Phoibammon Liturgical Ostraca Dossier |
State of edition: | Published. No translation. |
Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/263433001 |
Form: | Ostracon (limestone) |
Material: | Ostracon (limestone) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 8.2 | Width: 11.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (30/09/2022) |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete, writing is sometimes faded. |
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. 6 lines recto, 5 verso. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Monastery of Apa Phoibammon, Thebes, Egypt (TM places ID: 1341) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Monastery of Apa Phoibammon, Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1341) |
Present Location: | London, The British Museum |
Collection History: | Previously held by London, Egypt Exploration Society EEF 116 (previous). Donated to the British Museum in 1900 (collection website 21/12/2022). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 193 |
Collection website: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA32896 |
Notes/Discussion: | Same hand as O. Crum 518 (KYP M1645; TM 65326). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Crum, Walter E. Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Cairo Museum and others. London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902, no. 517, see part I, p. 3 and part II: Texts, p. 82. |
Translations: | |
General: | Mihálykó, Ágnes T. The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 114. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 308, no. 81 descr. (=catalogue only). |
Trismegistos ID: | 65327 |
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 | 747 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | Imported from checklist of Ágnes T. Mihálykó by KD (11/11/2019); MPS (25/3/2021); JS (12/11/2021); JS (16/12/2021); JS (29/9/22); JS (30/9/2022); KD (21/12/2022) |