Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Asyut Tomb III S05/46 (Magical Bone) |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Convex side ll. 1-47: Applied curse; name of victim does not survive. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | See related text for further information. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
601 – 1000 |
| Date notes: | Kahl 2016: p. 333. Dosoo (2021) suggests narrower 9th century dating based on the connection to the rest of the archive. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A47 |
| Archive name: | Asyut Bone Curse Dossier |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Rib |
| Material: | Bone (bovine, rib) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 40 | Width: 5.5 | Depth: 1.1 |
| Dimensions (notes): | Kahl 2016: p. 333. |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete, text considerably damaged. |
| 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, 47 lines. |
| Hand: | Asyut Bone Curse scribe. |
| Findspot: | Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt (TM places ID: 1271) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1271) |
| Present Location: | Shutb, SCA magazine |
| Collection History: | Excavated in situ. Found in Asyut Tomb III, Shaft 4, Surface-1 m below (Kahl 2016: 333). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
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| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | Written in red ink. For the identification of the bone as bovine, see Kitagawa 2023. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Kahl, Jochem. “Magical Bone.” In Asyut, Tomb III: Objects, edited by Jochem Kahl et al. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016, p. 332-337. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Dosoo, Korshi. “The Powers of Death: Memory, Place, and Eschatology in a Coptic Curse”, Religion in the Roman Empire 7.2 (2021), 167-194. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874133 |
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 (16/5/2019); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (16/9/2019); MPS (1/9/2020); KD (11/11/2020); KD (26/3/2021); KD (27/1/2022); KD (29/3/2023) |