Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Strasbourg Bibliothèque Nationale P. K 135 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-14: Curse against Shinte son of Tanheu to protect the virginity of Seine daughter of Moune |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | Crum 1922: p. 541. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
641 – 900 |
| Date notes: | Hand very reminiscent of those of the Heidelberg Library, dated to the tenth to eleventh centuries (KD 1/4/2022). Dated to 641-900 in TM (21/3/2019); Crum describes as “Arab period” (1922: p. 541). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A60 |
| Archive name: | Strasbourg Archive 2 |
| State of edition: | Published. Re-edition in progress by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6.1 | Width: 9.1 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Calculations from photo by KD (16/12/2021). Dimensions not noted in Crum. |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | 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, 14 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt (TM places ID: 1589) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt (TM places ID: 1589) |
| Present Location: | Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale |
| Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
322 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | Crum (1922: p. 541) notes a relationship between Strasbourg Bibliothèque Nationale P. K 135 and Stasbourg Bibliothèque National inv. 409, but which seems to be unpublished. They both come from Achmim, and both contain the name Shinte. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Crum, Walter E. “La magie copte: nouveaux textes.” In Recueil d’études égyptologiques dédiées à la mémoire de Jean-François Champollion à l’occasion du centenaire de la lettre à M. Dacier relative à l’alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques. Paris: Champion, 1922, p. 541-542. |
| Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 228, no. 68. |
| General: | Frankfurter, David. “Demon Invocations in the Coptic Magic Spells.” In Actes du huitième Congrès international d’Études coptes, vol. 2, edited by Nathalie Bosson and Anne Boud’hors. Leuven: Peeters, 2007, 453–466. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 99577 |
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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87 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
227 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
2.68 |
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 (21/3/2019); MPS (16/9/2019); KD (20/1/2020); KD (22/4/2020); MPS (28/8/2020); KD (16/12/2021); KD (1/4/2022) |