Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Würzburg inv. 42 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-21: Binding, silencing curse against Semne daughter of Coron for Biktōr son of Koheu. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 391). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
901 – 1000 |
| Date notes: | Brunsch 1978: p. 151. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/WrzPapyri_schrift_00000270 |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Paper |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 14.7 | Width: 11.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Brunsch (1978: p. 151) |
| Folding pattern: | 8 vertical creases (?), 2 horizontal creases (?). |
| State of preservation: | Complete, minor damage. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each recto and verso, but verso is abandoned attempt at recto text. 21 lines on recto, 1 lines and image on verso. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Würzburg, Universität |
| Collection History: | Purchased by Friedrich Prym through U. Wilcken in the early twentieth century, alongside various papyri in Greek, Egyptian (including Demotic and Coptic, and a Book fo the Dead, presumably in Traditional Egyptian) and Arabic (Brunsch 1978: p. 151). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
369 |
| Collection website: | https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/WrzPapyri_schrift_00000270 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Brunsch, Wolfgang. “Ein koptischer Bindezauber.” Enchoria 8 (1978): 151-157. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 209, no. 102. |
| General: | Gill, Ann-Katrin. The hieratic ritual books of Pawerem (P. BM EA 10252 and P. BM EA 10081) from the late 4th century BC. Wiesbaden, 2019, p. 595-596. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 99598 |
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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102 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
122 |
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 (5/12/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (16/9/2019); MPS (28/8/2020); KD (12/4/2021); KD (14/11/2024) |