Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. MMA 34.1.226 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-45: First prayer, for protection (?) |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic with Mesokemic features |
| Language/dialect notes: | Irregular orthographies. Mesokemic features, consistent with the findspot at Lisht, especially ⲟ for ⲱ (Zellmann-Rohrer 2017: p. 242). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
401 – 600 |
| Date notes: | Zellmann-Rohrer 2017: p. 240. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/md/original/sf34-1-226s1.jpg |
| Form: | Roll |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 26.7 | Width: 40 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Widths and heights are minimum. fr. A: 22.0 cm (H) x 11.9 cm (W). fr. B: 26.7 cm x 20.2 cm. fr. C: 14.4 cm x 9.9 cm. fr. D: 8.0 cm x 3.5 cm. fr. E: 8.6 cm x 2.5 cm |
| Folding pattern: | Several vertical creases indicating rolling and then flattening. (Zellmann-Rohrer 2017: p. 242). |
| State of preservation: | Complete but damaged, in 7 fragments, with sections lost along certain folds. |
| 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): | 2 columns recto (→). Column 1 has 45 lines, column 2 has 35 lines. |
| Hand: | 3 hands |
| Findspot: | El-Lisht, Egypt (TM places ID: 4996) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | El-Lisht, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 4996) |
| Present Location: | New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Egyptian) |
| Collection History: | Discovered at the Pyramid of Sesostris I (Senwosret) at Lisht in 1934 as part of excavations conducted by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Zellmann-Rohrer 2017: p. 240). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
247 |
| Collection website: | https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/475477 |
| Notes/Discussion: | “The main hand lacks professional proficiency and consistency in its attempt at an uncial, and thus is difficult to date palaeographically.” A second hand takes over in the middle of the 1st column. A relatively early date for both main hands may be suggested by the absence of features that mark medieval developments in the uncial bookhand” (Zellmann-Rohrer 2017: p. 242). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “Seth on Mount Sinai: A Coptic Magical Formulary with a Prayer and Theophany of the Biblical Seth.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 144.2 (2017): p. 240–254. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874134 |
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: | EL (19/11/18); MPS (16/4/2019); KD (22/1/2020); MPS (1/9/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); KD (14/7/2021) |