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Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro. ll. 1-21: Curse to destroy a business or place (?) |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic with Fayumic features |
Language/dialect notes: | Dosoo/Preininger (2023: 406); Beck (2018: p. 46) suggests Middle Egyptian influence, but Fayumic seems more likely given the lack of other Middle Egyptian features. See related texts for further notes. |
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901 – 1100 |
Date notes: | Palaeographic dating from Beck (2018: p. 45) and Dosoo/Preininger (2023: p. 406); ‘Dating unknown’ (Mößner und Nauerth 2015: p. 305) |
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State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_408/0001/thumbs |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Paper |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 22 | Width: 18 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Beck (2018: p. 45); Dosoo/Preininger (2023: 406). |
Folding pattern: | Perhaps 1 vertical crease, 12 horizontal creases |
State of preservation: | Complete, some damage to lower left and upper right. |
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2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, verso and recto, recto 25 lines, verso 6 lines. |
Hand: | Sloping, quadrilinear tendencies, unimodular, semi-formal, regular |
Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Present Location: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
Collection History: | Sold to the Heidelberger Papyrussammlung by Adolf Grohmann in March 1935 (Beck 2018: p. 46; Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 406). |
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156 |
Collection website: | https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/papyri/view/p_kopt_408/ |
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Bibiliography |
Editions: | Beck, Susanne. “4. Ein Rezept und zwei Beschwörungen”. In Coptica Palatina. Koptische Texte aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung (P. Heid. Kopt.), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Alain Delattre, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Gesa Schenke, and Georg Schmelz, Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2018, p. 45-52, no. 4. |
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General: | Love, Edward O. D. ““Crum’s Chicken”: Alpak, Demonised Donkeys, and Avianised Demons among the Figures of Demotic, Greek, and Coptic Magical Texts”, in Magikon Zōon: Animal and Magic, edited by Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming). |
Trismegistos ID: | 832290 |
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Edit History: | EL (24/9/2018); KD (5/2/2019); MPS (1/3/2019); Team (13/7/2020); KD (11/3/2021); MPS (12/1/2022); MPS (9/11/2022); KD (20/12/2022); KD (8/1/2024) |