Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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BM EA 55810 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-7: Healing stomach problem. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | TM (2/9/2020) |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
401 – 700 |
| Date notes: | TM (24/9/2018); Collection website states 6th-8th (24/9/2018) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published [no image] |
| Image: | http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=1355737001&objectId=121359&partId=1 |
| Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 12.2 | Width: 9.4 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (24/9/2018). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary. |
| 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, 9 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Wadi Sarga, Egypt (TM places ID: 2843) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Wadi Sarga, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2843) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Acquired by the British Museum in 1923. Excavated in 1913-1914 by Reginald Campbell Thompson for Byzantine Research Fund.Collection website (24/9/2018). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
193 |
| Collection website: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Crum, Walter E., and Harold I. Bell. Wadi Sarga: Coptic and Greek texts. Coptica 3. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel-Nordisk Forlag, 1922, no. 20, p. 51. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 108461 |
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” |
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 (24/9/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (13/12/2019); MPS (2/9/2020); MPS (22/3/2021) |