Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Naqlun N. 44/95 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied ?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. x+1-9: Fragmentary magical text, characters and images of animal-headed anthropomorphic figures; based on form, perhaps separation spell. |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic (?) |
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State of edition: | Unpublished. |
Image: |
Form: | Sheet (?) |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | No dimensions given in van der Vliet (2000) |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary, damaged to the right side, broke across the middle and at the bottom. |
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 (?), 9 surviving lines. |
Hand: |
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: | Cut into triangular shape. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | |
Translations: | |
General: | Love, Edward O. D. ““Crum’s Chicken”: Alpak, Demonised Donkeys, and Avianised Demons among the Figures of Demotic, Greek, and Coptic Magical Texts”, in Magikon Zōon: Animal and Magic, edited by Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming). |
Trismegistos ID: | 874182 |
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” | 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: | KD (20/3/2019); MPS (25/6/2019); EL (1/8/2019); EL (14/8/2020) |