Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Berlin 8328b |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (unclear) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro: Literary text (?) Re-use (palimpsest): 1. Ro ll. 1-5: Fragmentary magical text |
| 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. |
651 – 800 |
| Date notes: | Almost certainly 651-800, since part of Berlin Library, all of which have similar hands (KD). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A14 |
| Archive name: | Berlin Library |
| State of edition: | Published. No image. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 14 | Width: 10.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Dosoo (forthcoming). |
| Folding pattern: | At least 3 horizontal creases. |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, 6 surviving fragments, without joins. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 5 surviving lines (re-use); at least 5 lines in one column (original use). |
| 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: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
| Collection History: | Purchased by Dr. Reinhardt in the Fayum (Erman 1895: p. 44); Beltz, probably mistakenly, claims that it was acquired from the antiquities market in Cairo in the same year (1984: p. 94). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
40 |
| Collection website: | http://berlpap.smb.museum/ |
| Notes/Discussion: | P. Berlin 8328 is usually understood as a single sheet, but as observed already in Erman 1904: p. 14, it seems to in fact be two separate sheets of similar width, which we divide here into P. Berlin 8328a (mounted in the upper part of the glass) and P. Berlin 8328b (mounted in the lower part). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Erman, Adolf. Aegyptische Urkunden aus dem Koeniglichen Museen zu Berlin: Koptische Urkunden. Vol. 1. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1904, p. 14, no. 12. |
| Translations: | Dosoo, Korshi. “Horus, Sabaoth, Satanas: La « Bibliothèque de Berlin » et autres fonds d’archives magiques de l’Égypte romaine et les premières siècles de la période islamique”, in La magie et les sciences occultes dans le monde islamique edited by Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming). |
| General: | Erman, Adolf. “Ein koptischer Zauberer.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 33 (1895): 43-46. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 102260 |
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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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
67 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
2.53 |
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: | EL (24/10/2018); MPS (27/6/2019); KD (8/5/2019); KD (21/1/2020); KD (1/6/2020); KD (28/4/2021) |