Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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BM EA 19967 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-9: Letter of Jesus to Abgar |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 405). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 900 |
| Date notes: | TM (15/11/2018) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=455760001&objectId=173333&partId=1 |
| Form: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Material: | Ostracon (pottery) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 9 | Width: 11.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (15/11/2018). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, broken at the top, right-hand side, and bottom. 2 fragments. |
| 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): | 1 column recto, 9 lines. |
| Hand: | Slanting bilinear unimodular hand. |
| Findspot: | Dios Polis, Thebes East, Egypt (TM places ID: 576) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Dios Polis, Thebes East, Egypt (TM places ID: 576) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Purchased from Ernest A.T. Wallis Budge in 1887 (collection website 15/11/2018). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
193 |
| Collection website: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA19967 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Hall, Harry R. Coptic and Greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraka, Stelae, etc. in the British Museum. London, 1905 (O. Brit. Mus. Copt.), p. 43, plate 35, no. 3. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 191-193. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 108824 |
PAThs: | 6380 |
| 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” |
264 |
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 (15/11/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (2/10/2019); MPS (18/8/2020); KD (4/3/2022) |