Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Bawit, Courtyard 47, East wall, text IV. |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) (?) |
Contents: | 1. Recto ll. 1-25: Fragmentary text of the letter of Jesus to Abgar. |
Form: | Wall inscription |
Material: | Wall inscription (plaster) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Inscription on a wall, dimensions not noted in principal publication. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete, but lines 15 to 21 illegible. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | Written under a window of the courtyard, in about 25 lines, flanked from both sides by ornamental lines (MIFAO 111: p. 98). |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Abba Apollotos Monasterion (Bawit) (TM places ID: 10454) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Abba Apollotos Monasterion (Bawit) (TM places ID: 10454) |
Present Location: | Abba Apollotos Monasterion (Bawit) |
Collection History: | In situ. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Location suggests the text had either funerary or teaching function (Clackson 2002: p. 193). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Clédat, Jean. Le Monastère et la nécropole de Baouit. Edited by Dominique Bénazeth and Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya, with contributions by Anne Boud’hors, René-Georges Coquin, Éliane Gaillard. MIFAO 111. Cairo: Institut français d’Archéologie orientale; 1999, p. 98-100. |
Translations: | |
General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “The Abgar Correspondence in Coptic and the Production of Magical Manuscripts by Monks.” Handout from the Apocrypha Workshop – Oslo, 4 December 2021. |
Trismegistos ID: | 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” | AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | ||||
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 (17/12/2021); MPS (20/12/2021); MPS (17/1/2022); KD (15/2/2022) |