Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Moscow Copt. 33 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-11: Curse invoking scorpion |
| 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. |
901 – 1100 |
| Date notes: | 501-700 (Collection Website), but this is too early for paper (KD 22/6/2020). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. No published image. New edition desirable. |
| Image: | http://goskatalog.ru/muzfo-imaginator/rest/images/original/11587891?originalName=18652233.jpg |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Paper |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 11 | Width: 10.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection Website (16/6/2020); 11.8 x 10.5 cm: Dimensions not specified as height or width in Jernstedt (1959), but given number of lines it seems likely that it was taller than wide. |
| Folding pattern: | Horizontal creases, number unclear. |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, damaged. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto and verso, recto 11 lines, verso 4 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts |
| Collection History: | Coming from the collection of V.S. Golenishchev and given to the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Visual Arts (former: Fine Arts Museum of the Emperor Alexander III.) in 1911 (correspondence with Pushkin Museum 17/10/2022) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
234 |
| Collection website: | http://goskatalog.ru/portal/#/collections?id=13397654 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Invocation of scorpion to bring heat and cold – could refer to the symptoms of disease (fever) or of love (often conceptualised as fever). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | ★ Jernstedt, P. Коптские тексты государственного музея изобразительных искусств (P. Moscow Copt.) (Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1959), p. 81-82, no. 33. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874152 |
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: | KD (17/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (2/10/2019); KD (22/6/2020); Team (22/6/2020); KD (14/9/2021); SVS (17/10/2022) |