Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | BM EA 33140 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-5: Amulet for favour for Horobin |
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. | 601 – 800 |
Date notes: | From PAThs (1/4/2020). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A46 |
Archive name: | Monastery of Apa Phoibammon |
State of edition: | Published. No published image. New edition desirable. |
Image: |
Form: | Ostracon (limestone) |
Material: | Ostracon (limestone) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 8.5 | Width: 12.7 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | 5 x 3.5 inches (Hall 1905: p. 34). |
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. Recto 5 lines, verso 4 lines. |
Hand: | Large uncial |
Findspot: | Monastery of Apa Phoibammon, Thebes, Egypt (TM places ID: 2355) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Monastery of Apa Phoibammon, Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355) |
Present Location: | London, British Museum |
Collection History: | Excavated by Henri Édouard Naville (1893-1894) on behalf on Egypt Exploration Fund (PAThs 1/5/2020). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 193 |
Collection website: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Hall, H. R. Coptic and Greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraka, Stelae, etc. in the British Museum. London, 1905 (O. Brit. Mus. Copt.), p. 34 no. 1, pl. 27. |
Translations: | |
General: | Godlewski, Włodzimierz. Deir el-Bahari V, Le monastere de St. Phoibammon (Warsaw: Éditions Scientifiques de Pologne, 1986), p. 159. |
Trismegistos ID: | 82597 |
PAThs: | 3518 |
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: | KD (1/4/2020); EL (20/4/2020); team (18/5/2020) (3/3/2021) |