Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
|
PCM 1 29 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-22: Curse incorporating Jesus-serpent charm. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic with Fayumic features |
| Language/dialect notes: | See Dosoo/Preininger (2023): 261-262, 398. Cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 396), who lists as Fayumic. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
901 – 1100 |
| Date notes: | Dated palaeographically to the 10th or 11th century in Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 399. 1001-1100 according to Stegemann in Bilabel and Grohmann 1934: p. 397; TM: 1001-1100 (25/9/18) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A8 |
| Archive name: | Heidelberg Library |
| State of edition: | Recto unpublished, verso published. Edition in progress by K. Hevesi. |
| Image: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_678/0001/image,info,thumbs |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Paper |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 27.8 | Width: 18 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (18/7/2023). Mößner, Nauerth 2015: p. 309 states 27.8 x 18. |
| Folding pattern: | 1 vertical, 8 (?) horizontal creases. |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary (?). Top righthand corner lost, otherwise only partially damaged at folds; Bilabel and Grohmann (1934: p. 397) thought that one sheet of a double sheet was missing. |
| 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. 11 lines on recto, 22 lines on verso. Verso text written at 180 degrees to recto. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Place of purchase: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 332) |
| Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Present Location: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
| Collection History: | Inherited from Carl Schmidt’s collection, purchased by him in May 1930, perhaps in the Fayum, perhaps via Maurice Nahman (Gardner and Johnston 2019: p.32; Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 259, 398). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
156 |
| Collection website: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_678 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Different ink on front and back, but apparently same hand; the ink on the front is black, apparently carbon based, while that of the back is brown, likely plant based (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 398). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Bilabel, Friedrich, and Adolf Grohmann. Griechische, koptische und arabische Texte zur Religion und religiösen Literatur in Ägyptens Spätzeit. Heidelberg: Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, 1934, p. 397-399, no. 138. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Gardner, Iain, and Jay Johnston. “‘I, Deacon Iohannes, Servant Of Michael’: A New Look at P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 682 and a Possible Context for the Heidelberg Magical Archive.” Journal of Coptic Studies 21 (2019): p. 31-32. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 102077 |
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” |
177 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
|||
| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
102077 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | EL (25/9/18); MPS (2/9/2019); KD (13/9/2019); KD (5/5/2022); SVS (08/09/2022); KD (18/2/2023); MPS (18/7/2023); KD (20/11/2023); KD (19/1/2024); KD (21/1/2024) |