Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Köln Inv. 20826 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | See “notes/discussion” field. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | Römer and Thissen described a “mixed dialect” with Bohairic elements (see Römer, Thissen 1990: p. 175); “we are dealing with a common kind of non-literary Sahidic, exposed to occasional extraneous (Middle Egyptian or Fayyumic) pressure on the vowel-system)” (van der Vliet 1998: p. 122); Hermopolitan (Schenke 2017: p. 248). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 700 |
| Date notes: | Schenke 2017, p. 247; TM 500-799 (4/1/2019); Römer and Thissen state 5th to 8th century AD (Römer, Thissen 1990: p. 175); DCLP (4/1/2019) stating 400-799 AD. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/tm64959 |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 20 | Width: 15 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Römer & Thissen 1990: p. 175. See collection website (4/1/2019). |
| Folding pattern: | 2 horizontal, 8 vertical folds. |
| State of preservation: | Complete. Legible and well preserved. |
| 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 each, recto (↓) and verso (→). Recto 26 lines, verso 11 lines and 3 images. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
| Present Location: | Cologne, Papyrussammlung |
| Collection History: | Acquired in 1988 (personal communication with Charikleia Armoni, 5/10/2022). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
172 |
| Collection website: | https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/ |
| Notes/Discussion: | According to the available information it appears that this manuscript was purchased after the implementation of the Egyptian law no. 117 of 1983 on the protection of antiquities, as amended by law no. 3 of 2010, and has not been demonstrated to have left Egypt before this date. For this reason, we provide a basic description of its material format in order to allow it to be traced, but do not comment on its contents, in accordance with the International Association of Coptic Studies Resolution on the Ethical Handling of Cultural Heritage, adopted after the meeting of 16 July 2022. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Römer, Cornelia, and Heinz J. Thissen. “Eine magische Anrufung in koptischer Sprache.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 84 (1990): 175-181. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 110-111, no. 59. |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 64959 |
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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59 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
240 |
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 (20/12/2018); MPS 4/1/2019; EL (4/1/2019); KD (22/11/2019); MPS (4/9/2020); KD (16/9/2021); MPS (5/10/2022); MPS (6/10/2022) |