Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Berlin P. 8503 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-44-Vo. ll. 1-6: Silencing curse against Moufleh al-Pahani |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16 | Width: 15 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Beltz (1984: p. 94); Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 199) |
Folding pattern: | 3 (?) horizontal folds. |
State of preservation: | Complete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 3 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 2 columns recto, 44 lines. 1 column verso, 6 lines. Verso at 180 degrees to recto. |
Hand: | Berlin 8503 Hand |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Berlin, Staatliche Museen |
Collection History: | Purchased from the antiquities market in 1896 (Beltz 1984: p. 94) |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 40 |
Collection website: | http://berlpap.smb.museum/ |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpergamente der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museeun zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 30 (1984): p. 94-97, no. III 23. |
Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 243-247, no. 75. |
General: | Love, Edward O.D. “Bilingualism and Mono-/Bigraphia at the Nexus of Magical Traditions: From Egyptian-Greek to Coptic-Arabic Magical Texts”, in Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt, edited by Lajos Berkes. Ann Arbor: American Society of Papyrologists, 2002, p. 192. |
Trismegistos ID: | 99586 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 95 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 28 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | 2.75 |
CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | ||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 99586 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | EL (24/10/2018); MPS (16/9/2019); KD (20/1/2020); MPS (28/8/2020); EL (28/8/2020); KD (19/7/2021); KD (13/7/2021); KD (21/3/2022) |