Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Hermitage Copt. 70 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-28-Vo ll. 1-2: Applied curse against Prēstasia, Tnounte and Ebōnh |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Akhmimic |
Language/dialect notes: | Dialect is Akhmimic, but lacks the characteristic barred hori (ⳉ). |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 401 – 500 |
Date notes: | 5th century date likely based on dialect and hand, cf. Vienna K 10157 (PAThs Manuscript 1028; KD + EL 22/9/2021); 5th-6th according to Crum (Kropp 1931: p. x); 301-500 CE (Jernstedt 1959: p. 151); 301-500 CE (TM 25/3/2019) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A79 |
Archive name: | Russian-British Akhmimic Curse Group |
State of edition: | Published. New edition desirable. |
Image: |
Form: | Rotulus |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 29.8 | Width: 14.9 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | From photograph (max). 30 x 15cm (Jernstedt 1959: p. 151) |
Folding pattern: | 4 (?) horizontal creases. |
State of preservation: | Complete, some damage to right hand side. |
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 recto and verso; verso text at 90 degrees to recto. 28 lines recto, 2 lines verso |
Hand: | Russian-British Akhmimic Curse Group Hand |
Findspot: | Upper Egypt, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2766) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Upper Egypt, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2766) |
Present Location: | St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum |
Collection History: | From the collection of N. Likhachov; once housed in the Paleographical Museum of the Academy of Science in St. Petersburg; now in the Hermitage Museum (papyri.info 22/11/2018). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 316 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | ★ Jernstedt, Peter V. Коптские тексты государственного Эрмитажа (P.Hermitage). Moskow-Leningrad: Izd-vo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1959, p. 151-157, no. 70. |
Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2, Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 232-234, no. 70. |
General: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 1. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. x. |
Trismegistos ID: | 99580 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 90 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 184 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | 2.7 |
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: | KD (22/11/2018); EL (25/3/2019); MPS (17/6/2019); EL (14/8/2020); KD (2/6/2021); KD (9/6/2021); KD (22/9/2021); KD (6/10/2021); KD (25/4/2022) |