Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Chicago OIM E13767 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-12, Vo ll. 1-2: Applied curse against a the sexual virility of Pharaouō, the son of Kiranpales to make him unable to have intercourse with Touaein, the daugher of Kamar. |
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: | 9th-11th century in Stefanski (1939: p. 305), also TM (25/10/2018), but a date before the 10th century is unlikely based on the use of paper. |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. Re-edition in progress by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer. |
Image: | https://oi-idb.uchicago.edu/id/00e5fadc-de79-47a5-98a1-ce4d39392b00 |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Paper |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6 | Width: 16 | Depth: 0.2 |
Dimensions (notes): | http://papyri.info/apis/chicago.apis.26 |
Folding pattern: | 1 horizontal and 15 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. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each recto and verso, recto 12 lines, verso 2 lines. |
Hand: | Bilinear |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Chicago, Haskell Oriental Institute |
Collection History: | Previously in the collection of Bernhard Moritz, director of the Khedival Library in Cairo, purchased in 1929 (Stefanski 1936: p. 305; personal communication Rebecca Cain 18/1/2023). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 98 |
Collection website: | https://oi-idb.uchicago.edu/id/00e5fadc-de79-47a5-98a1-ce4d39392b00 |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | ★ Stefanski, Elizabeth. “A Coptic Magical Text.” The American Journal of Semitic Languages 56 (1939): 305–307. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 178-179, no. 85. |
General: | http://papyri.info/apis/chicago.apis.26 |
Trismegistos ID: | 99574 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 85 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 5 |
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 (25/10/2018); MPS (26/10/2018); KD (6/12/2018); EL (14/6/2019); Team (4/5/2020); KD (16/2/2021); KD (6/10/2021); MPS (12/1/2022); JS (26/2/22) |