Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Coptic Museum 4959 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-11: Text with angel illustration |
| 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. |
801 – 900 |
| Date notes: | 9th to 11th according to TM (21/3/2019), but date after 10th century unlikely with papyrus as the support. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A11 |
| Archive name: | Coptic Museum Archive (?) |
| State of edition: | Unpublished; partial translation in ACM. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Rotulus |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 60 | Width: 16 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Meyer & Smith (1991: p. 239) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary. Six large and several small fragments. |
| 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. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Cairo, Coptic Museum |
| Collection History: | Acquired along with other magical texts in 1948 (Meyer and Smith 1991: p. 11). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
72 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 239-243, no. 119. |
| General: | Drescher, James. “Two Coptic Magical Ingredients.” Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 1 (1958): 59. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 100008 |
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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119 |
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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 (24/10/2018); EL (21/3/2019); MPS (15/4/2019); MPS (8/9/2020); KD (9/12/2024) |