Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Chester Beatty Library Cpt 2177.82 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro. Charakteres, Greek letters in mirrored writing; magical words |
| Language(s): | Greek |
| Script(s): | Greek |
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| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 800 |
| Date notes: | cf. Collection Website (10/11/2022); could be dated as early as the 5th century based on the Greek letter forms but could also be later, cf. Zellmann-Rohrer 2020: p. 189. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://cbl01.intranda.com/viewer/image/Cpt_2177_82-84/1/LOG_0000/ |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16.3 | Width: 31.4 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | cf. Zellmann-Rohrer 2020: p. 189; 30.5×36.8 Collection Website (10/11/2022) |
| Folding pattern: | 2 or perhaps 3 horizontal creases; 2 vertical creases. |
| State of preservation: | Nearly complete; wholes with rough edges; a horizontal sheet-join (kollesis) runs along the bottom edge on the front, cf. Zellmann-Rohrer 2020: p. 189. |
| 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): | Writing recto (↓), kharakteres, Greek letters, magical words likely composite design; abstract ink patterns which the scribe integrated into his composition with hatches cf. Zellmann-Rohrer 2020: p. 194. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Aphrodito, Egypt (TM places ID: 237) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Aphrodito, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 237) |
| Present Location: | Chester Beatty Library |
| Collection History: | The Cpt. 2177 papyri were bought by Sir Chester Beatty in 1957 “presumably from a Cairo dealer” and kept at the British Museum until 1960 when they were transferred to Dublin cf. MacCoull 1985: p. 197. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
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| Collection website: | https://cbl01.intranda.com/viewer/image/Cpt_2177_82-84/1/LOG_0000/ |
| Notes/Discussion: | As mirrored writing does not appear in amulets but in gems or pattern books that served to produce gems, Zellmann-Rohrer believes that the text could have been copied from a gem or pattern book; near the bottom edge, Zellmann-Rohrer reads βοήθει ἢδη cf. Zellmann-Rohrer 2020: p. 192. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “More on the Tradition of Amulet Pattern-Books in Post-Ancient Copies?” Kernos 33 (2020): 187–201. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Hickey, Todd and Katelijn Vandorpe. “A New Fragment from P.Batav. 5 (Pathyris, May 118 BC).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 202 (2017): 214–218. |
| 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: | JS (10/11/2022); KD (5/11/2022) |