Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Mich. inv. 4162a |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) (?) |
| Contents: | 1. p. 1 l. 1-p. 2 l. 9: Unclear text, perhaps magical. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Bohairic |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 600 |
| Date notes: | Dated to the sixth century at the latest by Worrell (1942) 20; dated to the fifth or sixth century by Browne (1979: 41-42) and the collection website (24/1/2025). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Unpublished. |
| Image: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-APIS-X-2150%5D4162R.TIF |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6.5 | Width: 4.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (24/1/2025) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary; only upper outer (?) part of one leaf survives; text lost on inner and lower part. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 2 fragmentary pages, 8 surviving line p. 1 (→); 9 surviving lines p. 2 (↓). Order of pages given here follows that of Browne (1979) is very uncertain. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
| Collection History: | Acquired by Dr. Askren and Prof. Boak in July 1925 (collection website 24/1/2025). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
12 |
| Collection website: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-APIS-X-2150%5D4162R.TIF |
| Notes/Discussion: | The text is too fragmentary to be sure of its nature, but sequences such as p. 1 ll. 7-8 [ⲁ]ⲛⲟⲕ ⲇⲇ̣̇/ (“I (am) NN”), p. 2 l. 1 ⲛϯⲛⲟⲩ (“now)) would fit very well in a magical text, and there are no features arguing strongly against it (24/1/2025) |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Browne, Gerald M. Michigan Coptic Texts. Barcelona: Papyrologica Castroctaviana, 1979, p. 41-43, no. 11. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Worrell, William H. Coptic Texts in the University of Michigan Collection. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1942, p. 20, plate IV. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 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: | KD (24/1/2025) |