Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PCM 1 21 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-21: Invocation of image and characters, perhaps love spell, separation spell, or curse. |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic with Fayumic features |
Language/dialect notes: | See the discussion in Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 261-262;cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 396) who classifies as Fayumic. |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 951 – 1000 |
Date notes: | Written in same hand as P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 682 (M291), dated by its colophon to 967 CE (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 259-260). 901-1000 according to Mößner and Nauerth (2015: p. 309) and TM (25/9/18). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A8 |
Archive name: | Heidelberg Library |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16.3 | Width: 7 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Bilabel and Grohmann 1934: p. 409; Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 265. 16.5 x 7 cm (Mößner and Nauerth 2015: p. 309) |
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. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 21 lines. |
Hand: | Deacon Iohannes |
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: p. 259). |
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_680 |
Notes/Discussion: | There is space for the insertion of the names of two individuals, implying that this is a love spell, separation spell, curse, or similar. |
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. 409, no. 141. |
Translations: | |
General: | Love, Edward O. D. ““Crum’s Chicken”: Alpak, Demonised Donkeys, and Avianised Demons among the Figures of Demotic, Greek, and Coptic Magical Texts”, in Magikon Zōon: Animal and Magic, edited by Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming). |
Trismegistos ID: | 102078 |
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” | 180 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | |||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | 102078 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | EL (25/9/18); MPS (3/9/2019); KD (13/9/2019); MPS (3/9/2020); KD (17/11/2020); KD (1/2/2023); MPS (6/3/2023); KD (20/11/2023); KD (22/1/2024) |