Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Crum MSS 23.2.2 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro cols. 1-3: Figural amulet with tableau featuring composite anthropo-zoomorphic figure with kharaktēres and voces magicae; curse ? |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
801 – 1000 |
| Date notes: | Dating based on morphology of figures and discovery with Crum xxiii_2_1 as well as contemporary examples with ⲁⲗⲡⲁⲕ (or similar names) (Love fc.) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A26 |
| Archive name: | Oxford Magical Artist Dossier |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 9.3 | Width: 15.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Love (2022) |
| Folding pattern: | 4 vertical and 3 horizontal creases. Size when folded would have been 3.9-4cm in width and 8.3-9.3 cm in height (Love 2022) |
| State of preservation: | Complete, slight damage to outer edges and small holes along some folds. |
| 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): | Single tableau, analysable as 3 columns with 17 lines of text and kharaktēres. |
| Hand: | Oxford Magical Artist |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Oxford, Griffith Institute |
| Collection History: | One of two parchment sheets bought in Cairo in 1905 by Flinders Petrie and sent directly to Crum (Crum MSS xxiii_2_3a) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
659 |
| Collection website: | http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/varia-parchment-and-papyri |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Love, Edward O.D. “‘Crum’s Chicken’: Alpak, Demonised Donkeys, and Avianised Demons among the Figures of Demotic, Greek, and Coptic Magical Texts”, in Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (eds.), Magikon Zōon: Animal et magie dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge | Animal and Magic from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Paris-Orléans: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, 2022, 661-726. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874218 |
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 (17/10/2018); MPS (26/4/2019); KD (2/4/2020); EL (31/8/2020); KD (25/10/2022) |