Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Leiden F 1965/8.5 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Concave ll. 1-44: Applied curse against Harōn son of Tkouikira. |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
Language/dialect notes: | Drescher suggests Lower Thebaid (Drescher 1948: p. 267) |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 901 – 1000 |
Date notes: | Collection Website; c.901 (Drescher 1948: p. 268); 801-1100 (TM 21/3/2019). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A47 |
Archive name: | Asyut Bone Curse Dossier |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://www.rmo.nl/imageproxy/jpg/204906 |
Form: | Rib |
Material: | Bone (camel, rib) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 52 | Width: 5 | Depth: 1 |
Dimensions (notes): | 46-52 x 5 x 1 cm (Drescher 1948: p. 267). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete (almost). |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each concave and convex, concave 44 lines, convex 86 lines. |
Hand: | Asyut Bone Curse scribe. |
Findspot: | Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1589) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1589) |
Present Location: | Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities |
Collection History: | Sold to the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in 1965 from Johan Möger, a dealer from Soest in the Netherlands (private communication from Daniel Soliman, 24/6/2019). Previously in the collection of M. Robert Nahman, Cairo Antiquities Dealer (Drescher 1948: p. 267). Photographs in the Coptic Museum (Drescher 1948: p. 267). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 178 |
Collection website: | https://www.rmo.nl/collectie/collectiezoeker/collectiestuk/?object=22460 |
Notes/Discussion: | Written in blood or red ink (Drescher 1948: p. 267). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Drescher, James. “A Coptic Malediction.” Annales du service des antiquités de l‘Égypte (ASAE) 48 (1948), p. 267-276. |
Translations: | Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: i testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II 18.5, edited by W. Hasse and H. Temporini. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 3721-3722, no. 26. |
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: | 874161 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 98 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 42 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | 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)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | EL (21/3/2019); KD (24/5/2019); MPS (20/9/2019); MPS (27/8/2020); KD (27/11/2020); MPS (15/2/2021); KD (26/3/2021); KD (8/11/2021) |