Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Pennsylvania Museum E 16391 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-15: Separation spell (?) |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
401 – 1100 |
| Date notes: | Preliminary estimate. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Unpublished. |
| Image: | http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm?so_id=6086 |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment (vellum) |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 8 | Width: 10.3 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (4/6/2019) |
| Folding pattern: | Appear to be 8 horizontal, 8 vertical folds. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some damage. |
| 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, 15 lines. |
| Hand: | Irregular, informal, unimodular, bilinear, sloping |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |
| Collection History: | Acquired by the museum in 1911 (personal communication, Robert A. Kraft, 8/2/2019) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
280 |
| Collection website: | http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rak//ppenn/pictures/PPennPictures.html |
| Notes/Discussion: | Perhaps diokopos based on form triangular shape (like a knife). |
| Bibiliography |
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| General: | For image cf. Dosoo, Korshi. “Zōdion and Praxis. An Illustrated Coptic Magical Papyrus in the Macquarie University Collection.” Journal of Coptic Studies 20 (2018): 11–22. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874265 |
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 (8/2/2019); EL (19/3/2019); MPS (4/6/2019); MPS (19/8/2020) |