Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Naqlun N. 45/95 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-4: Applied curse to humiliate, destroy and cast down man named Biktōr. |
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. | 451 – 500 |
Date notes: | Hermitage was inhabited during the second half of the 5th century CE (van der Vliet 2000: p. 319) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A5 |
Archive name: | Naqlun Hermitage Magical Archive |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 4 | Width: 43 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Height varies from 4 cm (at left) to 2 cm (at right). |
Folding pattern: | Several (?) vertical creases. |
State of preservation: | Complete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 4 lines. |
Hand: | Upright, bilinear, unimodular, informal, irregular |
Findspot: | Hermitage 4, Naqlun, Egypt (TM places ID: 1418) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Hermitage 4, Naqlun, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1418) |
Present Location: | Naqlun, Monastery of the Archangel Gabriel |
Collection History: | Found in situ. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 1333 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Name Biktōr written in cipher. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | van der Vliet, Jacques. “Les Anges du Soleil”. Études Coptes 7 (2000): 319-337. |
Translations: | |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 108435 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 123 |
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: | MPS 5/3/2019; KD (21/3/2019); EL (1/8/2019); EL (14/8/2020) |