Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Aberdeen, King’s College number unknown |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-11: Applied curse against Martha and Maria. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Akhmimic |
| Language/dialect notes: | ϣ for ⲥ, ⲭ at times for ⳉ. See related text for further notes. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
301 – 500 |
| Date notes: | 5th century date likely based on dialect and hand (KD + EL 22/9/2021); 4th-5th according to TM (26/9/18) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A28 |
| Archive name: | Aberdeen Scribal Group |
| State of edition: | Published |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 15.5 | Width: 11.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 206). |
| Folding pattern: | 1 horizontal (?) and several vertical creases (based on photograph). According to Crum folded 7 times (vertically) and then 4 times (horizontally) (Crum 1922; Meyer and Smith). |
| 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 (↓), 11 lines. |
| Hand: | Aberdeen Scribe |
| Findspot: | Upper Egypt, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2766) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Upper Egypt, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2766) |
| Present Location: | Aberdeen, King’s College |
| Collection History: | Formerly Collection Grant Pascha (Crum 1922: p. 539; Kropp 1931: p. 227) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
2 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Crum, Walter Ewing. “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. 539-540, no. I. |
| Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 227-228, no. 67. |
| General: | Lee, G. M. “Demotica et Coptica.” Aegyptus 48 1/4 (1968): p. 140. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 99595 |
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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100 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
226 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
2.67 |
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 (26/9/2018); MPS (24/9/2019); KD (27/1/2020); MPS (27/8/2020); KD (2/6/2021); KD (22/9/2021) |