Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Duke inv. 460 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-4: Unclear |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic with Bohairic influence |
| Language/dialect notes: | Zellmann-Rohrer (2024) 235. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
801 – 900 |
| Date notes: | Dated to ninth century in Zellmann-Rohrer (2024) 235. 5th-6th century according to APIS (16/1/2019). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Unpublished. |
| Image: | https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/images/150dpi/460-at150.gif |
| Form: | Rotulus (?) |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 23.5 | Width: 15 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | APIS (16/1/2019). |
| Folding pattern: | 9 (?) horizontal creases. |
| State of preservation: | Top broken, rest complete (?). |
| 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 (↓), 26 lines. |
| Hand: | Informal, irregular |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Durham (NC), Duke University |
| Collection History: | Acquired by Duke in 1988; perhaps purchased, alongside the other Coptic material from the sale, perhaps acquired from the dealer Maguid Sameda, around 1954-1955 (Zellmann-Rohrer (2024) 235 n. 26). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
121 |
| Collection website: | http://www.papyri.info/apis/duke.apis.30563331 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Contains numbered recipes using the Psalms, of which nos. 42-47 are preserved. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “Headaches, Fevers, and Psalms: Notes on a Coptic Amulet from Oxyrhynchus”, Journal of Coptic Studies 26 (2024), 235-237 (edition and translation of ll. 5-26). |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 132027 |
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: | EL (16/1/2019); MPS (13/9/2019); KD (7/1/2019); MPS (1/9/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); KD (23/1/2025) |